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I'd suggest the scholarchs of the Garden after Epicurus should be right near the beginning. I see you started it with Polystratus: Scholarch (1st): HERMARCHUS* (c. 325 – 250 BCE) Scholarch from 270 to 250 BCEScholarch (2nd): POLYSTRATUS (c. 300 – 219/8 BCE) from 250 to 219/8 BCEScholarch (3rd): DIONYSIUS of LAMPTRAI (c. 280 – 205 BCE) from 219/8 to 205 BCEScholarch (4th): BASILIDES of TYRUS (c. 245 – 175 BCE) from 205 to 175 BCEScholarch (5th): PROTARCHUS of BARGHILIA (c. 225 – 150 BCE) from 175…

Look at that! My wife and I were married on Lucretius Day!!

(Quote from Cassius) Excellent points! Let me give it a little more thought in light of that. Thanks!!

Some of my suggestions: Apollodorus the Epicurean - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollodorus_the_Epicurean Phaedrus - 8th scholarch, and known to Cicero and Atticus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedrus_the_Epicurean "Cicero wrote to Atticus requesting Phaedrus' essay On gods (Greek: Περὶ θεῶν). Cicero used this work to aid his composition of the first book of the De Natura Deorum. Not only did he develop his account of Epicurean doctrine using it, but also the account of the doctrines of ear…

On the Epicureans in Acts 17: https://www3.nd.edu/~jneyrey1/epicureans.html