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 author of Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus) (Library of Greek mythology), which traditionally attributed to Apollodorus the historian; today often called Pseudo-Apollodorus.
• 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 Damascus, 2nd century architect.
• Apollodorus of Pergamum, 1st century BC rhetorician.
• 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 narrator in the Socratic dialog described by Plato in his Symposium (Plato dialogue).