The
ancients
distinguish be 1174, &c.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
350),
fore the expulsion of the kings. But the first time Apollodorus brought an action against Phormion,
that we hear of the worship of Apollo at Rome is for whom Demosthenes wrote a defence, the oration
in the year B. C. 430, when, for the purpose of for Phormion, which is still extant.
In this year,
arerting a plague, a temple was raised to him, and Apollodorus was archon eponymus at Athens.
soon after dedicated by the consul, C. Julius. (Liv. (Diod. xvi. 46. ) When Apollodorus afterwards at-
iv. 25, 29. ) A second temple was built to him in tacked the witnesses who had supported Phormion,
the year B. c. 350. One of these two (it is not Demosthenes wrote for Apollodorus the two orations
certain which) stood outside the porta Capena. still extant kata Stepávov. (Aeschin. de Fals. Leis.
During the second Punic war, in R. c. 212, the p. 50; Plut. Demosth. 15. ) Apollodorus had many
ludi Apollinares were instituted in honour of Apollo. and very important law-suits, in most of which
(Liv. xxv. 12; Macrob. Sut. i. 17; Dict. of Ant. Demosthenes wrote the specches for him (Clinton,
8. v. Luli Apollinares; comp. Ludi Sacculares. ) Fast. Hell. ii. p. 410, &c. 3d. ed. ) [DEMOSTHENES];
The worship of this divinity, however, did not the latest of them is that against Neaera, in which
form a very prouinent part in the religion of the Apollodorus is the pleader, and which may perhaps
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be referred to the year B. c. 340, when Apollo | Apollodorus wrote 47 comedies, and five times
dorus was fifty-four years of age. Apollodorus gained the prize. We know the titles and possess
was a very wealthy man, and performed twice the fragments of several of his plays; but ten coinedies
liturgy of the trierarchy. (Dem. c. Polyc. p. 1208, are mentioned by the ancienis under the name of
6. Nicostr. p. 1247. )
Apollodorus alone, and without any suggestion as
2. Of AMPHIPOLIs, one of the generals of Alex- to whether they belong to Apollodorus of Carys-
ander the Great, was entrusted in B. C. 331, tus or to Apollodorus of Gela. (A. Meineke,
together with Menes, with the administration of Hist. Crit. Comicor. Graccor. p. 462, &c. )
Babylon and of all the satrapies as far as Cilicia. 7. Tyrant of CASSANDREIA (formerly Potidaea) in
Alexander also gave them 1000 talents to collect the peninsula of Pallene. He at first pretended to be
as many troops as they could. (Diod. xvii. 54; a friend of the people ; but when he had gained ibeir
Curtius, v. 1 ; comp. Arrian, Anab. vii. 18; Appian, confidence, he forined a conspiracy for the purpose
de Bell. Civ. ii. 152. )
of making himself tyrant, and bound hiö accom-
3. Of ARTEMITÁ, whence he is distinguished plices by most barbarous ceremonies described in
from others of the name of Apollodorus by the Diodorus. (xxii. Exc. p. 563. ) When he had
ethnic adjective 'Apteuítas or 'Apteuitnuós. (Steph. gained kis object, about B. C. 279, he began his
Byz. s. v. 'Apteuíta. ) The time in which he lived tyrannical reign, which in cruelty, rapaciousness,
is unknown. He wrote a work on the Parthians and debauchery, has seldom been equalled in any
which is referred to by Strabo (ii. p. 118, xi. pp. country. The ancients mention him along with
509, 519, xv. p. 685), and by Athenaeus (xv. p. the most detestable tyrants that ever lived.
682), who mentions the fourth book of his work. (Polyb. vii. 7; Seneca, De Ira, ii. 5, De Benef.
There are two passages in Strabo (xi. pp. 516 and vii. 19. ) But notwithstanding the support which
526), in which according to the common reading he derived from the Gauls, who were then pene-
he speaks of an Apollodorus Adramyttenus ; bui trating southward, he was unable to maintain him-
as he is evidently speaking of the author of the self, and was conquered and put to death by
Parthica, the word 'ASpauuttavós has justly been Antigonus Gonatas. (Polyaen. vi. 7, iv. 6, 18;
changed into 'ApteuiTTVós. Whether this Apollo Aelian, V. H. xiv. 41; Hist. An. v. 15; Plut. De
dorus of Artemita is the same as the one to whom Sera Num. Vind. 10, 11 ; Paus. iv. 5. & 1; Hein-
a history of Caria is ascribed, cannot be decided. sius, ad Ovid. ex Pont. ii. 9. 43. )
Stephanus Byzantius (s. vv. 'Aprórnoos and Aaro- 8. Of Cumae, a Greek grammarian, who is said
via) mentions the seventh and fourteenth books of to have been the first person that was distinguished
this work.
by the title of grammarian and critic. (Clem. Alex.
4. An ATHENIAN, commanded the Persian Strom. i. p. 309. ) According to Pliny (H. N. vii.
auxiliaries wbich the Athenians had solicited from 37) his fame was so great that he was honoured by
the king of Persia against Philip of Macedonia in the Amphictyonic council of the Greeks.
B. C. 340. Apollodorus was engaged with these 9. Of CYRENE, a Greek grammarian, who is often
troops in protecting the town of Perinthus while cited by other Greek grammarians, as by the Scho-
Philip invaded its territory. (Paus. i. 29. $ 7; liast on Euripides (Orest. 1485), in the Etymolo-
comp. Diod. xvi. 75; Arrian, Anab. ii. 14. ) gicum M. (s. v. Bwuonóxoi), and by Suidas (s. vr.
5. A BoEOTIAN, who together with Epaenetus | άντικρυς, βωμολόχος, Νάνιον, and βδελύσσω).
came as ambassador from Boeotia to Messenia, in From Athenaeus (xi. p. 487) it would seem that
B. c. 183, just at the time when the Messenians, he wrote a work on drinking vessels (TOTÁp. a), and
terrified by Lycortas, the general of the Achaeans, if we may believe the authority of Natalis Comes
were inclined to negotiate for peace. The influence (iii. 16-18, ix. 5), he also wrote a work on
of the Boeotian ambassadors decided the question, the gods, but this may possibly be a confusion of
and the Messenians concluded peace with the Apollodorus of Cyrene, with the celebrated gram-
Achaeans. (Polyb. xiv. 12. )
marian of Athens. (Heyne, ad Apollod. pp.
6. Of CARYSTUS.
The ancients distinguish be 1174, &c. , 1167. )
tween two comic poets of the name of Apollodorus: 10. Of Cyzicus, lived previous to the time of
the one is called a native of Gela in Sicily, and the Plato, who in his dialogue Ion (p. 541), mentions
other of Carystus in Euboea. Suidas speaks of an him as one of the foreigners whom the Athenians
Athenian comic poet Apollodorus, and this circum- had frequently placed at the bead of their armies.
stance has led some critics to imagine that there This statement is repeated by Aelian (V. H. xiv. 5),
were three comic poets of the name of Apollodorus. but in what campaigns Apollodorus served the
But as the Athenian is not mentioned anywhere Athenians is not known. Athenaeus (xi. p. 506),
else, and as Suidas does not notice the Carystian, in censuring Plato for his malignity, mentions
it is supposed that Suidas called tbe Carystian an Apollodorus, and the other foreigners enumerated in
Athenian either by mistake, or because he had the the passage of the lon, as instances of persons calum-
Athenian franchise. It should, however, be re niated by the philosopher, although the passage does
membered that the plays of the Carystian were not not contain a trace of anything derogatory to them.
performed at Athens, but at Alexandria. (Athen. 11. Of Cyzicus, an unknown Greek writer, who
xiv. p. 664. ) Athenaeus calls him a contemporary is mentioned by Diogenes Laertius (ix. 38), and is
of Machon ; so that he probably lived between the perhaps the same as the Apollodotus spoken of by
years B. C. 300 and 260. Apollodorus of Carystus Clemens of Alexandria. (Strom. ii. p. 417. )
belonged to the school of the new Attic comedy, 12. Surnamed EPHiLLUS, a Stoic philosopher,
and was one of the most distinguished among its who is frequently mentioned by Diogenes Laertius,
poets. (Athen. I. c. ) This is not only stated by who attributes to him two works, one called QUOINT),
good authorities, but may also be inferred from the and the other necký. (Diog. Laërt. vii. 39, 41, 54,
fact, that Terence took his Hecyra and Phormio 64, 84, 102, 121, 125, 129, 135, 140. ) Theon of
from Apollodorus of Carystus. (A. Mai, Fragm. Alexandria wrote a commentary on the quo KT)
Pluuti et Terenti, p. 38. ) According to Suidas (Suid. s. v. Oéww), and Stobaeus (Eclog. Phys. i.
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APOLLODORUS.
p. 257, ed. Heeren) has preserved two fragments goes down to the time of Theseus, when the work
of it. This Stoic must be distinguished from the suddenly breaks off. The part which is wanting
Academic philosopher Apollodorus who is spoken at the end contained the stories of the families of
of by Cicero (De Nat. Deor. i. 34), but he is per. Pelops and Atreus, and probably the whole of the
haps the same as the one who is mentioned by Trojan cycle also. The first portion of the work
Tertullian (De Anima, 15) along with Chrysippus. (i. 1-7) contains the ancient theogonic and cos-
13. An EPICUREAN, was according to Diogenes mogonic mythuses, which are followed by the
Laërtius (x. 13) surnamed KITOTúpavvos, from his Hellenic mythuses, and the latter are arranged ac-
exercising a kind of tyranny or supremacy in the cording to the different tribes of the Greek nation.
garden or school of Epicurus. He was the teacher (Phot. Cod. 186. ) The ancients valued this work
of Zeno of Sidon, who became his successor as the very highly, as it formed a running mythological
head of the school of Epicurus, about B. C. 84. He commentary to the Greek poets ; to us it is of
is said to have written upwards of 400 books still greater value, as most of the works from which
(Bebnía, Diog. Laërt. x. 25), but only one of them Apollodorus derived his information, as well as
is mentioned by its title, viz. a Life of Epicurus. several other works which were akin to that of
(Diog. Laërt. x. 2. ) This as well as his other Apollodorus, are now lost. Apollodorus relates
works have completely perished.
his mythical stories in a plain and unadorned
14. An EPIGRAMMATIC poet, who lived in the style, and gives only that which he found in his
time of Augustus and Tiberius, and is commonly sources, without interpolating or perverting the
believed to have been a native of Smyrna. The genuine forms of the legends by attempts to ex-
Greek Anthology contains upwards of thirty epi- plain their meaning. This extreme simplicity
grams which bear his name, and which are distin- of the Bibliotheca, more like a mere catalogue
guished for their beautiful simplicity of style as of events, than a history, has led some modern
well as of sentiment. Reiske was inclined to con- critics to consider the work in its present form
sider this poet as the same man as Apollonides of either as an abridgement of some greater work of
Nicaea, and moreover to suppose that the poems in Apollodorus, or as made up out of several of his
the Anthologia were the productions of two differ- works. But this opinion is a mere hypothesis
ent persons of the name of Apollodorus, the one of without any evidence. The first edition of the
whom lived in the reign of Augustus, and the Bibliotheca of Apollodorus, in which the text is in
other in that of Hadrian. But there is no ground a very bad condition, was edited by Benedictus
for this hypothesis. (Jacobs, ad Anthol. Graec. xii. Aegius of Spoleto, at Rome, 1555, 8vo. A some
p. 854, &c. )
what better edition is that of Heidelberg, 1599,
15. Of ERYTHRAE, a Greek writer, who spoke 8vo. (Ap. Commelin. ) After the editions of
of the Erythraean Sibyl as his fellow-citizen. Tan. Faber (Salmur. 1661, 8vo. ), and Th. Gale in
(Varro, Fragm. p. 216, ed. Bip. ; Schol. ad Plat. bis Script. Hist. poet. (Paris, 1675, 8vo. ), there
Phaedr. p. 343; Lactant. De Fals. Relig. i. 6. ) followed the critical edition of Ch. G. Heyne,
16. Of Gela in Sicily, was, according to Suidas Göttingen, 1782 and 83, 4 vols. 12mo. , of which
and Eudocia (p. 61), a contemporary of Menander, a second and improved edition appeared in 1803,
and accordingly lived between the years B. C. 3402 vols. 8vo. The best among the subsequent
and 290. Suidas and Eudocia attribute to him editions is that of Clavier, Paris, 1805, 2 vols. 8vo. ,
seven comedies, of which they give the titles. But with a commentary and a French translation.
while Suidas (s. v. 'Atomówpos) ascribes them to The Bibliotheca is also printed in C. and Th.
Apollodorus of Gela, he assigns one of these same Müller, Fragment. Hist. Graec. , Paris, 1841, and
comedies in another passage (S. v. Otováčw) to the in A. Westermann's Mythographi, sive Scriptores
Carystian. Other writers too frequently confound Poeticae Histor. Graeci, 1843, 8vo.
the two comic poets. (Meineke, Hist. Crit. Comic. Among the other works ascribed to Apollodorus
Graec. p. 459, &c. )
which are lost, but of which a considerable number
17. À Greek GRAMMARIAN of Athens, was a of fragments are still extant, which are contained
son of Asclepiades, and a pupil of the gram- in Heyne's edition of the Bibliotheca and in C.
marian Aristarchus, of Panaetius, and Diogenes and Th. Müller's Fragm. Hist. Graec. , the follow-
the Babylonian. He flourished about the year ing must be noticed here: 1. Tepl Twv ’AOÁrno i
B. c. 140, a few years after the fall of Corinth. étailowy, i. e. on the Athenian Courtezans.
Further particulars are not mentioned about him. (Athen. xiii. pp. 567, 583, xiv. pp. 586, 591;
We know that one of his historical works (the Heyne, vol. iii. p. 1163, &c. ; Müller, p. 467, &c. )
χρονικά) came down to the year B. C. 143, and 2. Αντιγραφή προς την Αριστοκλέους επιστολής,
that it was dedicated to Attalus II. , surnamed (Athen. xiv. p. 636; Heyne, p. 1172, &c. ) 3.
Philadelphus, who died in B. C. 138 ; but how i'ñs neplodos, kWulco Métpo, that is, a Universal
long Apollodorus lived after the year B. C.
fore the expulsion of the kings. But the first time Apollodorus brought an action against Phormion,
that we hear of the worship of Apollo at Rome is for whom Demosthenes wrote a defence, the oration
in the year B. C. 430, when, for the purpose of for Phormion, which is still extant.
In this year,
arerting a plague, a temple was raised to him, and Apollodorus was archon eponymus at Athens.
soon after dedicated by the consul, C. Julius. (Liv. (Diod. xvi. 46. ) When Apollodorus afterwards at-
iv. 25, 29. ) A second temple was built to him in tacked the witnesses who had supported Phormion,
the year B. c. 350. One of these two (it is not Demosthenes wrote for Apollodorus the two orations
certain which) stood outside the porta Capena. still extant kata Stepávov. (Aeschin. de Fals. Leis.
During the second Punic war, in R. c. 212, the p. 50; Plut. Demosth. 15. ) Apollodorus had many
ludi Apollinares were instituted in honour of Apollo. and very important law-suits, in most of which
(Liv. xxv. 12; Macrob. Sut. i. 17; Dict. of Ant. Demosthenes wrote the specches for him (Clinton,
8. v. Luli Apollinares; comp. Ludi Sacculares. ) Fast. Hell. ii. p. 410, &c. 3d. ed. ) [DEMOSTHENES];
The worship of this divinity, however, did not the latest of them is that against Neaera, in which
form a very prouinent part in the religion of the Apollodorus is the pleader, and which may perhaps
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be referred to the year B. c. 340, when Apollo | Apollodorus wrote 47 comedies, and five times
dorus was fifty-four years of age. Apollodorus gained the prize. We know the titles and possess
was a very wealthy man, and performed twice the fragments of several of his plays; but ten coinedies
liturgy of the trierarchy. (Dem. c. Polyc. p. 1208, are mentioned by the ancienis under the name of
6. Nicostr. p. 1247. )
Apollodorus alone, and without any suggestion as
2. Of AMPHIPOLIs, one of the generals of Alex- to whether they belong to Apollodorus of Carys-
ander the Great, was entrusted in B. C. 331, tus or to Apollodorus of Gela. (A. Meineke,
together with Menes, with the administration of Hist. Crit. Comicor. Graccor. p. 462, &c. )
Babylon and of all the satrapies as far as Cilicia. 7. Tyrant of CASSANDREIA (formerly Potidaea) in
Alexander also gave them 1000 talents to collect the peninsula of Pallene. He at first pretended to be
as many troops as they could. (Diod. xvii. 54; a friend of the people ; but when he had gained ibeir
Curtius, v. 1 ; comp. Arrian, Anab. vii. 18; Appian, confidence, he forined a conspiracy for the purpose
de Bell. Civ. ii. 152. )
of making himself tyrant, and bound hiö accom-
3. Of ARTEMITÁ, whence he is distinguished plices by most barbarous ceremonies described in
from others of the name of Apollodorus by the Diodorus. (xxii. Exc. p. 563. ) When he had
ethnic adjective 'Apteuítas or 'Apteuitnuós. (Steph. gained kis object, about B. C. 279, he began his
Byz. s. v. 'Apteuíta. ) The time in which he lived tyrannical reign, which in cruelty, rapaciousness,
is unknown. He wrote a work on the Parthians and debauchery, has seldom been equalled in any
which is referred to by Strabo (ii. p. 118, xi. pp. country. The ancients mention him along with
509, 519, xv. p. 685), and by Athenaeus (xv. p. the most detestable tyrants that ever lived.
682), who mentions the fourth book of his work. (Polyb. vii. 7; Seneca, De Ira, ii. 5, De Benef.
There are two passages in Strabo (xi. pp. 516 and vii. 19. ) But notwithstanding the support which
526), in which according to the common reading he derived from the Gauls, who were then pene-
he speaks of an Apollodorus Adramyttenus ; bui trating southward, he was unable to maintain him-
as he is evidently speaking of the author of the self, and was conquered and put to death by
Parthica, the word 'ASpauuttavós has justly been Antigonus Gonatas. (Polyaen. vi. 7, iv. 6, 18;
changed into 'ApteuiTTVós. Whether this Apollo Aelian, V. H. xiv. 41; Hist. An. v. 15; Plut. De
dorus of Artemita is the same as the one to whom Sera Num. Vind. 10, 11 ; Paus. iv. 5. & 1; Hein-
a history of Caria is ascribed, cannot be decided. sius, ad Ovid. ex Pont. ii. 9. 43. )
Stephanus Byzantius (s. vv. 'Aprórnoos and Aaro- 8. Of Cumae, a Greek grammarian, who is said
via) mentions the seventh and fourteenth books of to have been the first person that was distinguished
this work.
by the title of grammarian and critic. (Clem. Alex.
4. An ATHENIAN, commanded the Persian Strom. i. p. 309. ) According to Pliny (H. N. vii.
auxiliaries wbich the Athenians had solicited from 37) his fame was so great that he was honoured by
the king of Persia against Philip of Macedonia in the Amphictyonic council of the Greeks.
B. C. 340. Apollodorus was engaged with these 9. Of CYRENE, a Greek grammarian, who is often
troops in protecting the town of Perinthus while cited by other Greek grammarians, as by the Scho-
Philip invaded its territory. (Paus. i. 29. $ 7; liast on Euripides (Orest. 1485), in the Etymolo-
comp. Diod. xvi. 75; Arrian, Anab. ii. 14. ) gicum M. (s. v. Bwuonóxoi), and by Suidas (s. vr.
5. A BoEOTIAN, who together with Epaenetus | άντικρυς, βωμολόχος, Νάνιον, and βδελύσσω).
came as ambassador from Boeotia to Messenia, in From Athenaeus (xi. p. 487) it would seem that
B. c. 183, just at the time when the Messenians, he wrote a work on drinking vessels (TOTÁp. a), and
terrified by Lycortas, the general of the Achaeans, if we may believe the authority of Natalis Comes
were inclined to negotiate for peace. The influence (iii. 16-18, ix. 5), he also wrote a work on
of the Boeotian ambassadors decided the question, the gods, but this may possibly be a confusion of
and the Messenians concluded peace with the Apollodorus of Cyrene, with the celebrated gram-
Achaeans. (Polyb. xiv. 12. )
marian of Athens. (Heyne, ad Apollod. pp.
6. Of CARYSTUS.
The ancients distinguish be 1174, &c. , 1167. )
tween two comic poets of the name of Apollodorus: 10. Of Cyzicus, lived previous to the time of
the one is called a native of Gela in Sicily, and the Plato, who in his dialogue Ion (p. 541), mentions
other of Carystus in Euboea. Suidas speaks of an him as one of the foreigners whom the Athenians
Athenian comic poet Apollodorus, and this circum- had frequently placed at the bead of their armies.
stance has led some critics to imagine that there This statement is repeated by Aelian (V. H. xiv. 5),
were three comic poets of the name of Apollodorus. but in what campaigns Apollodorus served the
But as the Athenian is not mentioned anywhere Athenians is not known. Athenaeus (xi. p. 506),
else, and as Suidas does not notice the Carystian, in censuring Plato for his malignity, mentions
it is supposed that Suidas called tbe Carystian an Apollodorus, and the other foreigners enumerated in
Athenian either by mistake, or because he had the the passage of the lon, as instances of persons calum-
Athenian franchise. It should, however, be re niated by the philosopher, although the passage does
membered that the plays of the Carystian were not not contain a trace of anything derogatory to them.
performed at Athens, but at Alexandria. (Athen. 11. Of Cyzicus, an unknown Greek writer, who
xiv. p. 664. ) Athenaeus calls him a contemporary is mentioned by Diogenes Laertius (ix. 38), and is
of Machon ; so that he probably lived between the perhaps the same as the Apollodotus spoken of by
years B. C. 300 and 260. Apollodorus of Carystus Clemens of Alexandria. (Strom. ii. p. 417. )
belonged to the school of the new Attic comedy, 12. Surnamed EPHiLLUS, a Stoic philosopher,
and was one of the most distinguished among its who is frequently mentioned by Diogenes Laertius,
poets. (Athen. I. c. ) This is not only stated by who attributes to him two works, one called QUOINT),
good authorities, but may also be inferred from the and the other necký. (Diog. Laërt. vii. 39, 41, 54,
fact, that Terence took his Hecyra and Phormio 64, 84, 102, 121, 125, 129, 135, 140. ) Theon of
from Apollodorus of Carystus. (A. Mai, Fragm. Alexandria wrote a commentary on the quo KT)
Pluuti et Terenti, p. 38. ) According to Suidas (Suid. s. v. Oéww), and Stobaeus (Eclog. Phys. i.
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APOLLODORUS.
APOLLODORUS.
p. 257, ed. Heeren) has preserved two fragments goes down to the time of Theseus, when the work
of it. This Stoic must be distinguished from the suddenly breaks off. The part which is wanting
Academic philosopher Apollodorus who is spoken at the end contained the stories of the families of
of by Cicero (De Nat. Deor. i. 34), but he is per. Pelops and Atreus, and probably the whole of the
haps the same as the one who is mentioned by Trojan cycle also. The first portion of the work
Tertullian (De Anima, 15) along with Chrysippus. (i. 1-7) contains the ancient theogonic and cos-
13. An EPICUREAN, was according to Diogenes mogonic mythuses, which are followed by the
Laërtius (x. 13) surnamed KITOTúpavvos, from his Hellenic mythuses, and the latter are arranged ac-
exercising a kind of tyranny or supremacy in the cording to the different tribes of the Greek nation.
garden or school of Epicurus. He was the teacher (Phot. Cod. 186. ) The ancients valued this work
of Zeno of Sidon, who became his successor as the very highly, as it formed a running mythological
head of the school of Epicurus, about B. C. 84. He commentary to the Greek poets ; to us it is of
is said to have written upwards of 400 books still greater value, as most of the works from which
(Bebnía, Diog. Laërt. x. 25), but only one of them Apollodorus derived his information, as well as
is mentioned by its title, viz. a Life of Epicurus. several other works which were akin to that of
(Diog. Laërt. x. 2. ) This as well as his other Apollodorus, are now lost. Apollodorus relates
works have completely perished.
his mythical stories in a plain and unadorned
14. An EPIGRAMMATIC poet, who lived in the style, and gives only that which he found in his
time of Augustus and Tiberius, and is commonly sources, without interpolating or perverting the
believed to have been a native of Smyrna. The genuine forms of the legends by attempts to ex-
Greek Anthology contains upwards of thirty epi- plain their meaning. This extreme simplicity
grams which bear his name, and which are distin- of the Bibliotheca, more like a mere catalogue
guished for their beautiful simplicity of style as of events, than a history, has led some modern
well as of sentiment. Reiske was inclined to con- critics to consider the work in its present form
sider this poet as the same man as Apollonides of either as an abridgement of some greater work of
Nicaea, and moreover to suppose that the poems in Apollodorus, or as made up out of several of his
the Anthologia were the productions of two differ- works. But this opinion is a mere hypothesis
ent persons of the name of Apollodorus, the one of without any evidence. The first edition of the
whom lived in the reign of Augustus, and the Bibliotheca of Apollodorus, in which the text is in
other in that of Hadrian. But there is no ground a very bad condition, was edited by Benedictus
for this hypothesis. (Jacobs, ad Anthol. Graec. xii. Aegius of Spoleto, at Rome, 1555, 8vo. A some
p. 854, &c. )
what better edition is that of Heidelberg, 1599,
15. Of ERYTHRAE, a Greek writer, who spoke 8vo. (Ap. Commelin. ) After the editions of
of the Erythraean Sibyl as his fellow-citizen. Tan. Faber (Salmur. 1661, 8vo. ), and Th. Gale in
(Varro, Fragm. p. 216, ed. Bip. ; Schol. ad Plat. bis Script. Hist. poet. (Paris, 1675, 8vo. ), there
Phaedr. p. 343; Lactant. De Fals. Relig. i. 6. ) followed the critical edition of Ch. G. Heyne,
16. Of Gela in Sicily, was, according to Suidas Göttingen, 1782 and 83, 4 vols. 12mo. , of which
and Eudocia (p. 61), a contemporary of Menander, a second and improved edition appeared in 1803,
and accordingly lived between the years B. C. 3402 vols. 8vo. The best among the subsequent
and 290. Suidas and Eudocia attribute to him editions is that of Clavier, Paris, 1805, 2 vols. 8vo. ,
seven comedies, of which they give the titles. But with a commentary and a French translation.
while Suidas (s. v. 'Atomówpos) ascribes them to The Bibliotheca is also printed in C. and Th.
Apollodorus of Gela, he assigns one of these same Müller, Fragment. Hist. Graec. , Paris, 1841, and
comedies in another passage (S. v. Otováčw) to the in A. Westermann's Mythographi, sive Scriptores
Carystian. Other writers too frequently confound Poeticae Histor. Graeci, 1843, 8vo.
the two comic poets. (Meineke, Hist. Crit. Comic. Among the other works ascribed to Apollodorus
Graec. p. 459, &c. )
which are lost, but of which a considerable number
17. À Greek GRAMMARIAN of Athens, was a of fragments are still extant, which are contained
son of Asclepiades, and a pupil of the gram- in Heyne's edition of the Bibliotheca and in C.
marian Aristarchus, of Panaetius, and Diogenes and Th. Müller's Fragm. Hist. Graec. , the follow-
the Babylonian. He flourished about the year ing must be noticed here: 1. Tepl Twv ’AOÁrno i
B. c. 140, a few years after the fall of Corinth. étailowy, i. e. on the Athenian Courtezans.
Further particulars are not mentioned about him. (Athen. xiii. pp. 567, 583, xiv. pp. 586, 591;
We know that one of his historical works (the Heyne, vol. iii. p. 1163, &c. ; Müller, p. 467, &c. )
χρονικά) came down to the year B. C. 143, and 2. Αντιγραφή προς την Αριστοκλέους επιστολής,
that it was dedicated to Attalus II. , surnamed (Athen. xiv. p. 636; Heyne, p. 1172, &c. ) 3.
Philadelphus, who died in B. C. 138 ; but how i'ñs neplodos, kWulco Métpo, that is, a Universal
long Apollodorus lived after the year B. C.
