Apollonides () was a tragic poet of

ancient Greece Ancient Greece () was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically r ...

, concerning whom nothing is known. He may have lived in the third century BCE. Two fragments of his dramas (''TrGF'' 152) are preserved by

Clement of Alexandria Titus Flavius Clemens, also known as Clement of Alexandria (; – ), was a Christian theology, Christian theologian and philosopher who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria. Among his pupils were Origen and Alexander of Jerusalem. A ...

and

Stobaeus Joannes Stobaeus (; ; 5th-century AD), from Stobi in Macedonia (Roman province), Macedonia, was the compiler of a valuable series of extracts from Greek authors. The work was originally divided into two volumes containing two books each. The tw ...

, 4.22.3, 4.22.7 He may have been the same person as Apollonides of Nicaea.

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3rd-century BC Greek poets Ancient Greek writers known only from secondary sources Ancient Greek tragic poets {{AncientGreece-writer-stub