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Apollodorus of Athens (; born ca. 180 BC, died after 120 BC) son of Asclepiades, was a Greek
Greeks

The Greeks , also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, who can also be found in Greek diaspora communities around the world....
 scholar and grammarian. He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon, Panaetius the Stoic
Panaetius

Panaetius of Rhodes, , was a Stoic philosopher. He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon and Antipater of Tarsus in Athens, before travelling with his friend Scipio Aemilianus Africanus to Rome where he did much to introduce Stoic doctrines to the city....
, and the grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace
Aristarchus of Samothrace

Aristarchus or Aristarch of Samothrace was a grammarian noted as the most influential of all scholars of Homeric poetry. He was the librarian of the Library of Alexandria Alexandria and seems to have succeeded his teacher Aristophanes of Byzantium Byzantium in that role....
. He left, or fled, Alexandria around BC 146, most likely for Pergamum, and eventually settled in Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
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Apollodorus of Athens (; born ca. 180 BC, died after 120 BC) son of Asclepiades, was a Greek
Greeks

The Greeks , also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, who can also be found in Greek diaspora communities around the world....
 scholar and grammarian. He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon, Panaetius the Stoic
Panaetius

Panaetius of Rhodes, , was a Stoic philosopher. He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon and Antipater of Tarsus in Athens, before travelling with his friend Scipio Aemilianus Africanus to Rome where he did much to introduce Stoic doctrines to the city....
, and the grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace
Aristarchus of Samothrace

Aristarchus or Aristarch of Samothrace was a grammarian noted as the most influential of all scholars of Homeric poetry. He was the librarian of the Library of Alexandria Alexandria and seems to have succeeded his teacher Aristophanes of Byzantium Byzantium in that role....
. He left, or fled, Alexandria around BC 146, most likely for Pergamum, and eventually settled in Athens
Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
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Literary works

  • Chronicle (???????), a Greek history in verse from the fall of Troy
    Troy

    Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer....
     in the 12th century BC to roughly BC 143 (although later it was extended as far as 109 BC), and based on previous works by Eratosthenes of Cyrene
    Eratosthenes

    Eratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greeks mathematician, poet, sportsperson, geographer and astronomer. He made several discoveries and inventions including a system of latitude and longitude....
    . Its dates are reckoned by its references to the archons of Athens. As most archons only held office for one year, scholars have been able to pin down the years to which Apollodorus was referring. The poem is written in comic trimeter
    Trimeter

    In poetry, a trimeter is a metre of three metrical foot per line—example:...
    s and is dedicated to Attalus II Philadelphus
    Attalus II Philadelphus

    Attalus II Philadelphus was a King of Pergamon. He was the second son of Attalus I and wife queen Apollonis , and ascended the throne first as co-ruler alongside his ailing brother Eumenes II in 160 BC, whose widow Stratonice he married in 158 BC upon Eumenes' death....
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  • On the Gods (?e?? ?e??), a detailed history of Greek religion, heavily depended on by later writers, such as Philodemus
    Philodemus

    Philodemus of Gadara was an Epicurean philosopher and poet. He studied under Zeno of Sidon in Athens, before moving to Rome, and then to Herculaneum....
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  • A twelve-book essay about Homer's Catalogue of Ships
    Catalogue of Ships

    The Catalogue of Ships is a passage in Book 2 of Homer Iliad , which lists the contingents of the Achaeans army that sailed to Troy. The sonorous catalogue gives the names of the leaders of each contingent, lists the settlements in the kingdom represented by the contingent, sometimes with a descriptive epithet that fills out a half-vers...
    , also based on Eratosthenes of Cyrene
    Eratosthenes

    Eratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greeks mathematician, poet, sportsperson, geographer and astronomer. He made several discoveries and inventions including a system of latitude and longitude....
     and Demetrius of Scepsis
    Demetrius of Scepsis

    Demetrius of Scepsis was a Greek grammarian of the time of Aristarchus of Samothrace and Crates of Mallus . He was a man of good family and an acute philologer ....
    , dealing with Homeric geography and how it has changed along the centuries. Strabo
    Strabo

    Strabo was a Ancient Greeks history, geography and philosophy....
     relied greatly on this for books 8 through 10 of his own Geographica
    Geographica (Strabo)

    The Geographica , or Geography, is a 17-volume encyclopedia of geographical knowledge written in Ancient Greek by Strabo, an educated citizen of the Roman empire of Greek and Georgian descent....
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  • Other possible works include an early etymology (possibly the earliest by an Alexandrian writer), and analyses of the poets Epicharmus of Kos
    Epicharmus of Kos

    Epicharmus is considered to have lived within the hundred year period between c. 540 and c. 450 BC. He was a Greek people dramatist and philosopher often credited with being one of the first comedy writers, having originated the Dorians or Sicily comedic form....
     and Sophron
    Sophron

    Sophron, of Syracuse, Italy, writer of mimes, flourished about 430 BC.He was the author of prose dialogues in the Doric Greek dialect, containing both male and female characters, some serious, others humorous in style, and depicting scenes from the daily life of the Sicilian Greeks....
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  • Apollodorus produced numerous other critical and grammatical writings, which have not survived.
  • His eminence as a scholar gave rise to several imitations, forgeries and misattributions. The encyclopedia of Greek mythology
    Greek mythology

    Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
     called Bibliotheca
    Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)

    The Bibliotheca , in three books, provides a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends, "the most valuable mythographical work that has come down from ancient times," Aubrey Diller observed, whose "stultifying purpose" was neatly expressed in the epigram noted by Patriarch Photius I of Constantinople:...
    , or Library, was traditionally attributed to him, but it cannot be his; it cites authors who wrote centuries later. Today the author of the Bibliotheca is called Pseudo-Apollodorus.


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