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Athenodoros or Athenodorus was the name of several figures in the ancient Hellenistic world:

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Athenodoros or Athenodorus was the name of several figures in the ancient Hellenistic world:

Athenodoros of Kleitor (fl late 5th-early 4th century BCE), sculptor who made statues of Zeus and Apollo which the Lacedaemonians erected at Delphi
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
Athenodorus of Soli
Athenodorus of Soli

Athenodorus of Soli, Cilicia was a Stoic philosopher, and disciple of Zeno of Citium, who lived in the 3rd century BC.He was the son of Athenodorus, and was born in the town of Soli, Cilicia, and was the compatriot of another disciple of Zeno, Chrysippus....
(fl. mid 3rd century BCE), a Stoic philosopher and disciple of Zenon
Athenodoros Cananites
Athenodoros Cananites

Athenodoros Cananites was a Stoic philosopher. He was born in Canana, near Tarsus , his father's name Sandon. He was a student of Posidonius of Rhodes, and the teacher of Augustus at Apollonia, Illyria....
, a Stoic philosopher of the 1st Century BCE
Athenodoros Cordylion
Athenodoros Cordylion

Athenodoros Cordylion was a Stoic philosopher, born in Tarsus . He was the keeper of the library at Pergamum, where he was known to cut out passages from books on Stoic philosophy if he disagreed with them....
, 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
Agesander of Rhodes

Agesander was a sculpture from the island of Rhodes. His name occurs in no author except Pliny the Elder, and until very recently we have known of only one work which he executed, albeit one very highly renowned work....
, whom he assisted with the famous Laocoön and his Sons
Laocoön and his Sons

The statue of Laoco?n and His Sons, also called the Laoco?n Group, is a monumental marble sculpture now in the Vatican Museums, Rome....
now in the Vatican Museum
a pirate who raided Delos
Delos

The island of Delos , isolated in the centre of the roughly circular ring of islands called the Cyclades, near Mykonos, is one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece....
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, quoted by Plutarch
Plutarch

Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus , c. AD 46 ? 120 ? commonly known in English as Plutarch ? was a Ancient Rome historian , biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonism....
Athenodorus of Byzantium
Athenodorus of Byzantium

Athenodorus , also known as Athenogenes , was Patriarch of Constantinople from 144 until 148. During his years of office, which was at the time when the city was administrated by Zeuxippus, there was a significant increase of the Christian population....
, (fl. 2nd century CE), bishop of Byzantium from 144 until 148
Athenodoros of Aenos (fl. 2nd century CE) a rhetorician, student of Aristocles of Messene
Aristocles of Messene

Aristocles of Messene, a Peripatetic philosopher, who probably lived in the 1st century AD. He may have been the teacher of Alexander of Aphrodisias...
and Chrestus of Byzantium
Athenodoros of Eritrea, author of a work titled ("Notes") referred to by Photios I of Constantinople
Athenodoros of Rhodes, a rhetorician referred to by Quintilian
Quintilian

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was a Roman Empire rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in Middle ages schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing....
both the father and the brother of the poet Aratus
Aratus

Aratus was a Greeks didactic poet, known for his technical poetry....
were named Athenodorus