Athenodoros

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Athenodoros or Athenodorus (Greek: ̉Αθηνόδωρος) was the name of several figures in the ancient Hellenistic world:

• Athenodoros of Kleitor (fl late 5th-early 4th century BCE) was a sculptor who made statues of Zeus and Apollo which the Lacedaemonians erected at Delphi in thanks for the Spartan victory in the Battle of Aegospotami. He was a student of Polykleitos the Elder and was famous for his statues of noble women.
• Athenodoros of Teos – a cithara player who performed at the wedding of Alexander the Great in 324 BCE
• a tragedian who wrote a work for the same occasion
• Athenodoros of Soli (fl. mid 3rd century BCE), a Stoic philosopher and disciple of Zenon. He dissented from the Stoic belief that all offences are equal.
• Athenodoros Cananites, a Stoic philosopher of the 1st Century BCE
• Athenodoros Cordylion, another Stoic philosopher of the same era and keeper of the library of Pergamum
• a sculptor of the 1st century BCE, the son and pupil of Agesander of Rhodes, whom he assisted with the famous Laocoön and his Sons now in the Vatican Museum
• a pirate who raided Delos c. 70 BCE, enslaving the people and desecrating the statues of the gods.
• a physician of the late 1st or early 2nd century CE who wrote a book on epidemic diseases (̉Επιδήμια) quoted by Plutarch.
• Athenodoros of Aenos (fl. 2nd century CE) a rhetorician, student of Aristocles of Messene and Chrestus of Byzantium.
• Athenodoros of Eritrea, author of a work titled ύπομνηματα ("Notes") referred to by Photius.
• Athenodoros of Rhodes, a rhetorician referred to by Quintilian
• both the father and the brother of the poet Aratus were named Athenodorus.