Apollodorus
Apollodorus (Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος Apollodoros) was a popular name in ancient Greece. It is the masculine gender of a noun compounded from Apollo, the deity, and doron, "gift"; that is, "Gift of Apollo." It may refer to:
Historical people
Art contexts
- Apollodorus (painter), an Athenian painter, who lived at the end of the 5th century BC and introduced great improvements in perspective and chiaroscuro
- Apollodorus (sculptor)
Historians
- Apollodorus of Artemita, 2nd-century historian of the Parthian empire
- Apollodorus the Epicurean, author of the Life of Epicurus, a work famous in ancient Greece but no longer extant
Literary contexts
- Apollodorus mythographus (disambiguation), a literary identity assigned to two possible candidates
- Apollodorus of Athens (born c. 180 BC), historian and grammarian, mistakenly identified in antiquity as the author a text on Greek mythology called the Bibliotheca or Library
- Apollodorus of Carystus, New Comedy playwright, 300–260 BC
- Apollodorus of Erythrae, ancient Greek writer
- Apollodorus of Gela, an earlier playwright
- Apollodorus of Lemnos, ancient Greek writer on agriculture
- Apollodorus of Tarsus, tragic poet
- Apollodorus of Telmessus, writer on dreams
- "Pseudo-Apollodorus," author of the Bibliotheca
Oratorical contexts
- Apollodorus of Cumae, Greek grammarian
- Apollodorus of Cyrene, Greek grammarian
- Apollodorus of Pergamon, 1st-century BC rhetorician
Philosophic contexts
- Apollodorus of Phaleron, follower of Socrates and narrator of the dialogue described by Plato in his Symposium
- Apollodorus of Seleucia, Stoic philosopher of the 2nd century BC
- Apollodorus the Epicurean, a 2nd cent. BC head of the Epicurean school in Athens
Political contexts
- Apollodorus (general), Athenian general of the 4th century BC
- Apollodorus (jurist), 5th-century Greco-Roman jurist
- Apollodorus of Acharnae, son of the 4th century BC banker Pasion and subject of many of Demosthenes' speeches
- Apollodorus of Amphipolis, Macedonian general
- Apollodorus of Boeotia, 2nd-century BC ambassador
- Apollodorus of Cassandreia, a tyrant of the city of Cassandreia (died 276 BC)
- Apollodorus of Macedonia, Macedonia general
- Apollodorus of Susiana, satrap of Susiana
- Apollodorus Pyragrus, ancient Sicilian mentioned by Cicero
- Apollodorus the Sicilian, companion of Cleopatra
Scientific contexts
- Apollodorus Logisticus, ancient Greek mathematician
- Apollodorus of Damascus, 2nd-century architect
- Apollodorus (physician), other physicians of ancient history with this name
Other contexts
- Apollodorus of Cyzicus, two different persons from ancient Greece
- Apollodorus of Nicaea, mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium
- Apollodorus of Smyrna, a copyist error for Apollonides of Smyrna
- Apollodorus (runner)
Use in scientific terminology
See also
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