Apollodorus (disambiguation)

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Apollodorus was a popular name in ancient Greece. It may refer to:

• Apollodorus of Athens (born c. 180 BC), historian and mythographer
• The Pseudo-Apollodorus, author of the Bibliotheca
• Apollodorus (painter), an Athenian painter, who lived at the end of the 5th century BC and introduced great improvements in perspective and chiaroscuro
• Apollodorus of Carystus, New Comedy playwright, 300-260 BCE
• Apollodorus of Gela, an earlier playwright
• Apollodorus of Artemita,
• Apollodorus of Damascus, 2nd century architect
• Apollodorus of Pergamon, 1st century BC rhetorician
• Apollodorus of Seleucia, Stoic philosopher of the 2nd century BC
• Apollodorus of Acharnae, son of the 4th century BC banker Pasion and subject of many of Demosthenes' speeches
• Apollodorus the Epicurean, author of the Life of Epicurus, a work famous in ancient Greece but no longer extant
• Apollodorus the Sicilian, companion of Cleopatra
• Apollodorus of Phaleron, follower of Socrates and narrator of the dialogue described by Plato in his Symposium
• Apollodorus of Amphipolis, Macedonian general
• Apollodorus (runner)

[edit] References

• Apollodorus Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology