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Alexander Polyhistor - Article from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Discusses the extant philosophical fragments of this author, and what they may imply about his own teachings.
Fragments of Chaldean History, Berossus - Polyhistor's account of Berossus' history of Babylonia. From I.P. Cory's 1832 translation.

Alexander Polyhistor - Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor was a Greek scholar who was enslaved by the Romans during the Mithridatic War and taken to Rome as a tutor. After his release, he continued to live in Italy as a Roman citizen.
Successions of Philosophers - Successions of Philosophers or Philosopher's Successions is a lost book written by Alexander Polyhistor, and referenced several times in Diogenes Laërtius' book Vitae philosophorum (Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers).
Eupolemus - Eupolemus was a Jewish historian whose work survives only in five fragments (or possibly six fragments) in the Eusebius of Caesarea's Praeparatio Evangelia (hereafter abbreviated as Praep.) embedded in quotations from the historian Alexander Polyhistor and in the Stromata (hereafter abbreviated as Strom.
Gaius Julius Hyginus - Gaius Julius Hyginus (ca. 64 BC – AD 17) was a Latin author, but whether a native of Spain or of Alexandria is not sure, a pupil of the famous Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus, by whom he was made superintendent of the Palatine library, according to Suetonius, De Grammaticis, 20.