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: Ἀπολλόδωρος ''Apollodoros'') was a popular name in ancient Greece. It is the masculine gender of a noun compounded from

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, the deity, and doron, "gift"; that is, "Gift of Apollo." It may refer to: :''Note: A few persons appear in more than one section.''

Artists

Apollodorus (painter) Apollodorus Skiagraphos () was an influential Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek Artist, painter of the 5th century BC whose work has since been entirely Lost media, lost. Apollodorus left a technique behind known as skiagraphia, a way to easily produc ...

, Athenian painter who lived at the end of the 5th century BC and introduced great improvements in perspective and chiaroscuro *

Apollodorus (sculptor) Apollodorus was a sculptor of ancient Greece, who made statues in bronze. He was so fastidious that he often broke his works in pieces after they were finished, and hence he obtained the surname of "the madman", in which character he was represented ...

(), Greek sculptor in bronze so picky he often broke his works in pieces after he finished them

Authors

* Apollodorus (), author of the '' Bibliotheca'', sometimes called "Pseudo-Apollodorus" to distinguish him from Apollodorus of Athens (below), with whom he was sometimes confused *

Apollodorus of Carystus Apollodorus 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 (342—290), a contemporary of ...

(), New Comedy playwright *

Apollodorus of Erythrae Apollodorus of Erythrae was a writer of ancient Greece, who spoke of the Erythraean Sibyl The Erythraean Sibyl was the prophetess of classical antiquity presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Erythrae, a town in Ionia opposite Chios, which was ...

, ancient Greek writer *

Apollodorus of Gela Apollodorus of Gela (), Magna Graecia, in Sicily was a New Comedy playwright. According to Eudokia Makrembolitissa and the Suda, he was a contemporary of Menander, and accordingly lived between the years 340 and 290 BC. Both the Suda and Eudokia at ...

(), New Comedy playwright *

Apollodorus of Lemnos Apollodorus of Lemnos was a writer of ancient Greece who wrote on agriculture. He lived previous to the time of the philosopher Aristotle. He is mentioned by the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BCE) was a Ro ...

, ancient Greek writer on agriculture *

Apollodorus of Tarsus Apollodorus of Tarsus () was a tragic poet of ancient Greece, who is mentioned by Eudocia and in the Suda as having written six tragedies (''Child-Killer'', ''Greeks'', ''Odysseus'', ''Supplicants'', ''Thorn-Scourged'', and ''Thyestes''); only the ...

, tragic poet *

Apollodorus of Telmessus Apollodorus of Telmessus is called by Artemidorus a notable or famous man (ἀνὴρ ἐλλόγιμος), and seems to have written a work on dreams. This seems to have specifically been on the subject of Oedipal In classical psychoanalytic the ...

, writer on dreams *

Apollodorus the Epicurean Apollodorus (; fl. 2nd century BC) was an Epicurean philosopher, and head of the Epicurean school in Athens. According to Diogenes Laërtius, he was surnamed ''Tyrant of the Garden'' () from his exercising a kind of tyranny or supremacy in the ga ...

(), Athenian philosopher and author of the ''Life of Epicurus'', head of the Epicurean school in Athens

Historians

Apollodorus of Artemita Apollodorus of Artemita () was a Greek historian who flourished between 130 and 87 BC. He hailed from the Greco-Parthian city of Artemita in Apolloniatis and was a citizen of the Parthian Empire. Biography Appollodorus's dates of birth and death ...

(), Greek historian of the Parthian empire *

Apollodorus of Athens Apollodorus of Athens (, ''Apollodoros ho Athenaios''; c. 180 BC – after 120 BC), son of Asclepiades, was a Greek scholar, historian, and grammarian. He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon, Panaetius the Stoic, and the grammarian Aristarchu ...

(c. 180 BC–after 120 BC), Greek historian and grammarian

Oratory

(c. 180 BC–after 120 BC), Greek historian and grammarian *

Apollodorus of Cumae Apollodorus () was a Greek grammarian from Cumae, who was said to have been the first person that was given the titles of grammarian and critic. According to Pliny,Pliny the Elder, ''Natural History Natural history is a domain of inquiry invo ...

, Greek grammarian *

Apollodorus of Cyrene Apollodorus of Cyrene () was a grammarian of ancient Greece, who was often cited by other Greek grammarians, as by the Scholiast on Euripides, in the ''Etymologicum Magnum'', and in the Suda. From Athenaeus it would seem that he wrote a work on dri ...

, Greek grammarian *

Apollodorus of Pergamon Apollodorus () of Pergamon was a rhetorician of ancient Greece who was the author of a school of rhetoric called after him ''Apollodoreios Hairesis'' (Ἀπολλοδωρειος αἵρεσις), which was subsequently opposed by the school establi ...

, 1st century BC rhetorician

Philosophers

(), Athenian philosopher and author of the ''Life of Epicurus'', head of the Epicurean school in Athens *

Apollodorus of Phaleron Apollodorus of Phaleron (Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος Φαληρεύς, ''Apollódōros Phalēreύs'', c. 445 – 4th century BCE) was an Ancient Athenian student and prominent follower of Socrates frequently depicted in the Socratic literature. ...

(c. 429–4th century BC), follower of Socrates and narrator of the dialogue described by Plato in his ''Symposium'' *

Apollodorus of Seleucia Apollodorus of Seleucia on the Tigris, Seleucia (; flourished c. 150 BC), or Apollodorus Ephillus, was a Stoicism, Stoic philosopher, and a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon. Apollodorus is famous for describing Cynicism (philosophy), Cynicism as "the ...

(), Stoic philosopher

Rulers and generals

Apollodorus (general) Apollodorus () was an Athens, Athenian general of the 4th century BCE. He commanded the Persian auxiliaries which the Athenians had solicited from the king of Persia, Artaxerxes III, against Philip of Macedon in 340. Artaxerxes, who was keen to bloc ...

, Athenian general of the 4th century BC *

Apollodorus of Amphipolis Apollodorus () from Amphipolis was one of the cavalry generals of Alexander the Great, who commanded the force Alexander left behind with the Babylonian governor Mazaeus. He was entrusted in 331 BC, together with Menes of Pella, with the administrat ...

(), Macedonian cavalry general under Alexander the Great *

Apollodorus of Cassandreia Apollodorus was a tyrant of the ancient Greek city of Cassandreia (formerly Potidaea) in the peninsula of Pallene. He at first pretended to be a friend of the people, but when he had gained their confidence, he formed a conspiracy for the purpose ...

(died 276 or 275 BC), a tyrant of the city of Cassandreia *

Apollodorus of Susiana Apollodorus was a governor, or satrap, of Susiana. He was appointed to this office by the ruler Antiochus III the Great, after the rebellion of his general Molon and his brother Alexander had been put down, in 220 BCE.Polybius Polybius (; , ; ) ...

, satrap of Susiana appointed in 220 BC

Other

* Apollodorus (jurist) (), Greco-Roman jurist * Apollodorus (physician), two physicians mentioned by Pliny the Elder *

Apollodorus (runner) Apollodorus (; fl. 1st century AD) was an ancient Macedonian runner who, after winning in the Olympics, was killed by lightning on his way back home. He is commemorated by Antipater of Thessalonica in the below epigram (''Greek Anthology'' 7.390): ...

, 1st century Macedonian runner who won the Olympics *

Apollodorus of Acharnae Apollodorus (; 394 – after 343 BCE) of Acharnae in Attica was an Athenian politician known from several ancient forensic speeches which were preserved as part of the Demosthenic corpus. He was the son of Pasion, a wealthy banker who had ...

(394–after 343), Athenian politician and subject of many of Demosthenes' speeches *

Apollodorus of Boeotia Apollodorus from Boeotia was a man of 2nd-century BCE ancient Greece who, together with Epaenetus, went as ambassador from Boeotia to Messenia in 183 BCE, just at the time when the Messenians, terrified by Lycortas, the general of the Achaeans, were ...

(), Greek ambassador *

Apollodorus of Cyzicus Apollodorus () of Cyzicus can refer to two different persons from ancient Greece: *Apollodorus who lived previous to the time of Plato, who in his dialogue ''Ion'', mentions him as one of the foreigners whom the Athenians had frequently placed at t ...

, two different persons from ancient Greece, one mentioned by Plato, the other by Diogenes Laërtius *

Apollodorus of Damascus Apollodorus of Damascus () was an architect and engineer from Roman Syria, who flourished during the 2nd century AD. As an engineer he authored several technical treatises, and his massive architectural output gained him immense popularity dur ...

, 2nd century Nabataean architect and engineer *

Apollodorus of Macedonia Apollodorus of Macedonia served as secretary to King Philip V of Macedon. He and another scribe of the name of Demosthenes accompanied the king to the colloquy at Nicaea, on the Malian Gulf, with Tiberius Quinctius Flamininus, in 198 BCE.Polybius ...

(), Macedonian scribe, secretary to King Philip V of Macedon *

Apollodorus of Nicaea Apollodorus was a man mentioned among the distinguished people of Nicaea by the 6th-century writer Stephanus of Byzantium.Stephanus of Byzantium Stephanus or Stephen of Byzantium (; , ''Stéphanos Byzántios''; centuryAD) was a Byzantine grammari ...

, mentioned by 6th century writer Stephanus of Byzantium *

Apollodorus Logisticus Apollodorus Logisticus was a man of ancient Greece who appears to have been a mathematician, if as is usually supposed, he is the same as the one who is called ''Arithmetikos'' (ἀριθμητικός). Whether he is the same as the Apollodotus o ...

, ancient Greek mathematician *

Apollodorus Pyragrus Apollodorus Pyragrus was a man of ancient Sicily who was one of the most influential citizens of the town of Agyrium (modern Agira). He is described by the writer Cicero as having given evidence against the praetor Verres, who was notorious for his ...

, 1st century BC Sicilian mentioned by Cicero *

Apollodorus the Sicilian Apollodorus () 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 struggl ...

(), loyal follower of Cleopatra