Apollodorus

Apollodorus was a popular name in ancient Greece. It may refer to:

• Apollodorus of Alexandria, a physician, probably physician to Ptolemy
• Apollodorus of Athens (born c. 180 BC), historian and mythographer
• "Pseudo-Apollodorus," author of the Bibliotheca
• 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 Cassandreia, a tyrant of the city of Cassandreia (died 276 BC)
• Apollodorus of Carystus, New Comedy playwright, 300–260 BC
• Apollodorus of Gela, an earlier playwright
• Apollodorus of Artemita, 2nd-century historian of the Parthian empire
• Apollodorus of Damascus, 2nd-century architect
• Apollodorus of Pergamon, 1st-century BC rhetorician
• Apollodorus of Seleucia, Stoic philosopher of the 2nd century BC
• 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 Sicilian, companion of Cleopatra
• Apollodorus of Phaleron, follower of Socrates and narrator of the dialogue described by Plato in his Symposium
• Apollodorus of Amphipolis, Macedonian general
• Apollodorus (runner)
• Apollodorus (crater)

References

• Apollodorus Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology