Apollodorus (disambiguation)
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Apollodorus was a popular name in ancient Greece
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in Ancient Greece is the...
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- ApollodorusApollodorusApollodorus of Athens son of Asclepiades, was a Greek scholar and grammarian. He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon, Panaetius the Stoic, and the grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace...
of Athens (born c. 180 BC), historian and mythographer - The Pseudo-Apollodorus, author of the BibliothecaBibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)The Bibliotheca , in three books, provides a comprehensive summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends, "the most valuable mythographical work that has come down from ancient times," Aubrey Diller observed, whose "stultifying purpose" was neatly expressed in the epigram noted by...
- Apollodorus (painter)Apollodorus (painter)Apollodorus Skiagraphos was an influential Ancient Greek painter of the 5th century BC whose work has since been entirely lost. Apollodorus left a technique behind known as skiagraphia, a way to easily produce shadow, that affected the works not only of his contemporaries but also of later...
, an Athenian painter, who lived at the end of the 5th century BC and introduced great improvements in perspective and chiaroscuro - Apollodorus of CarystusApollodorus of CarystusApollodorus of Carystus in Euboea, was one of the most important writers of the Attic New Comedy, who flourished in Athens between 300 and 260 B.C. He is to be distinguished from the older Apollodorus of Gela , also a writer of comedy, a contemporary of Menander. He wrote 47 comedies and obtained...
, New Comedy playwright, 300-260 BCE - Apollodorus of Gela, an earlier playwright
- Apollodorus of ArtemitaApollodorus of ArtemitaApollodorus of Artemita was a Greek writer of the 1st century BCE.Apollodorus wrote a history of the Parthian Empire, the Parthika , in at least four books. He is quoted by Strabo and Athenaeus. Strabo stated that he was very reliable. Apollodorus seems to have used the archives of Artemita and...
, 2nd century historian of the Parthian empire - Apollodorus of DamascusApollodorus of DamascusApollodorus of Damascus was a Greek engineer, architect, designer and sculptor who flourished during the 2nd century AD, from Damascus, Roman Syria. He was a favourite of Trajan, for whom he constructed Trajan's Bridge over the Danube for the 105-106 campaign in Dacia. He also designed the Forum...
, 2nd century architect - Apollodorus of Pergamon, 1st century BC rhetorician
- Apollodorus of SeleuciaApollodorus of SeleuciaApollodorus of Seleucia, , was a Stoic philosopher, and a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon.He wrote a number of handbooks on Stoicism, including ones on Ethics and Physics which are frequently cited by Diogenes Laërtius....
, Stoic philosopher of the 2nd century BC - Apollodorus of AcharnaeApollodorus of AcharnaeApollodorus of Acharnae in Attica is known from several of Demosthenes' forensic speeches. Apollodorus was the son of the banker Pasion, who died in 370 BCE when Apollodorus was twenty-four. After Pasion's death his widow married Phormion, a freedman of Pasion, and subsequently died in 360 BCE...
, son of the 4th century BC banker Pasion and subject of many of Demosthenes' speeches - Apollodorus the EpicureanApollodorus the EpicureanApollodorus was an Epicurean philosopher, and head of the Epicurean school in Athens.He was according to Diogenes Laërtius surnamed Tyrant of the Garden from his exercising a kind of tyranny or supremacy in the garden or school of Epicurus. He was the teacher of Zeno of Sidon, who succeeded him...
, author of the Life of Epicurus, a work famous in ancient Greece but no longer extant - Apollodorus the SicilianApollodorus the SicilianApollodorus was a loyal follower of the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra VII. In 48 BC he is supposed to have enabled Cleopatra to get in the palace of Alexandria to Julius Caesar and in this way to strengthen decisively her position in the power struggle with her brother Ptolemy XIII.When Caesar came to...
, companion of Cleopatra - Apollodorus of Phaleron, follower of SocratesSocratesSocrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon, and the plays of his contemporary ...
and narrator of the dialogue described by Plato in his SymposiumSymposium (Plato)The Symposium is a philosophical text by Plato dated c. 385–380 BCE. It concerns itself at one level with the genesis, purpose and nature of love.... - Apollodorus of AmphipolisAmphipolisAmphipolis was an ancient Greek city in the region once inhabited by the Edoni people in the present-day region of Central Macedonia. It was built on a raised plateau overlooking the east bank of the river Strymon where it emerged from Lake Cercinitis, about 3 m. from the Aegean Sea. Founded in...
, Macedonian general - Apollodorus (runner)Apollodorus (runner)Apollodorus was an unlucky ancient Macedonian runner who although won in Olympics he was killed by lightning on his way back home. He is commemorated by Antipater of Thessalonica in the below epigram....
- Apollodorus (crater)Apollodorus (crater)Apollodorus is an impact crater on Mercury. It is located near the center of Pantheon Fossae, which is a system of radial grabens situated in the inner part of the Caloris basin...