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Apollodorus ( Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος Apollodoros; "Gift of Apollon") was a popular name in ancient Greece. It may refer to:
- Apollodorus (physician), other physicians of ancient history with this name
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Apollodorus of Cyzicus, a general at the head of Athenian forces mentioned by Plato
- Apollodorus of Cyzicus, an otherwise unknown Greek writer
- Apollodorus of Cyrene, Greek grammarian
- Apollodorus of Boeotia, 2nd-century BCE ambassador
- 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 (general), Athenian general of the 4th century BCE
- Apollodorus of Cassandreia, a tyrant of the city of Cassandreia (died 276 BC)
- Apollodorus of Carystus, New Comedy playwright, 300–260 BC
- Apollodorus of Cumae, Greek grammarian
- Apollodorus of Smyrna, a published corruption of Apollonides of Smyrna
- 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 Susiana, satrap of Susiana
- Apollodorus of Phaleron, follower of Socrates and narrator of the dialogue described by Plato in his Symposium
- Apollodorus of Amphipolis, Macedonian general
- Apollodorus of Erythrae, ancient Greek writer
- Apollodorus (jurist), 5th-century Greco-Roman jurist
- Apollodorus (sculptor)
- Apollodorus of Lemnos, ancient Greek writer on agriculture
- Apollodorus of Nicaea, mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium
- Apollodorus of Macedonia, Macedonia general
- Apollodorus Pyragrus, ancient Sicilian mentioned by Cicero
- Apollodorus of Tarsus, tragic poet
- Apollodorus of Telmessus, writer on dreams
- Apollodorus Logisticus, ancient Greek mathematician
- Apollodorus (runner)
- Apollodorus (crater)
Apollodorus Skiagraphos was an influential Ancient Greek painter of the 5th century BC whose work has since been entirely lost. Apollodorus left a technique behind known as skiagraphia, a way to easily produce shadow, that affected the works not only of his contemporaries but also of later generations.
Apollodorus is an impact crater on Mercury. Its unusual appearance, with radiating dark troughs, led to a nickname of "the Spider" by scientists before its official name was decided. Apollodorus is located near the center of Pantheon Fossae, which is a system of radial grabens situated in the inner part of the Caloris basin. The floor, rim and walls of Apollodorus expose a low reflectance material (LRM) excavated during the impact from beneath the light volcanic plains, which cover the central part of the Caloris.
It is not currently known whether it played a role in the fossae's formation or if its location is merely a coincidence, although no graben appears to cut the crater rim, and the dark impact ejecta partially covers grabens suggesting that Apollodorus postdates Pantheon Fossae. In addition, the crater is actually slightly (by about 40 km) offset from the exact center of the Fossae.
Apollodorus of Damascus is credited as the architect of the Pantheon in Rome.
Apollodorus is the name of two physicians mentioned by Pliny the Elder, one of whom was a native of Citium (modern Kition), in Cyprus, the other of Tarentum (modern Taranto). Perhaps it was one of these who wrote to Ptolemy, king of Egypt, giving him directions as to what wines he should drink, though to which king of this name his precepts were addressed is not mentioned. A person of the same name wrote a work Ointments and Chaplets quoted by Athenaeus, and another, quoted by the same author, On Venomous Animals , which is possibly the work that is several times referred to by Pliny.
Apollodorus was an Athenian general of the 4th century BCE. He commanded the Persian auxiliaries which the Athenians had solicited from the king of Persia, Artaxerxes III, against Philip of Macedon in 340 BCE. Artaxerxes, who was keen to block the advance of Philip, ordered his satraps to render all aid they could, and the satrap Arsites stepped in to provide mercenaries. Apollodorus became engaged with these troops in protecting the town of Perinthus (modern Marmara Ereğlisi) while Philip invaded its territory. Apollodorus's forces had laid in significant provisions, and successfully repelled the siege.
Apollodorus was buried with civic honors in the Athenian Kerameikos.
Apollodorus was a Graeco-Roman jurist of the 5th century, who was one of the commission appointed by Theodosius II to compile the Codex Theodosianus. In the year 429 he appears as comes and magister memoriac, and he appears as comes sacri consistorii in the years 435 and 438. There seems to be no reason, beyond sameness of name and nearness of date, to identify him with the Apollodorus who was comes rei priratae under the emperors Arcadius and Honorius in the year 396, and was proconsul of Africa in the years 399 and 400.
To Apollodorus, proconsul of Africa, are addressed some of the letters of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, who was connected with him by affinity.
Apollodorus was a sculptor of ancient Greece, who made statues in bronze. He was so fastidious that he often broke his works in pieces after they were finished, and hence he obtained the surname of " the madman," in which character he was represented by the sculptor Silanion. Assuming from this that the two artists were contemporary, Apollodorus flourished about 324 BCE.
A little further on Pliny names an Apollodorus among the artists who had made bronze statues of philosophers.
On the base of the Venus de' Medici, Apollodorus is mentioned as the father of the sculptor Cleomenes. Classicist Friedrich Thiersch suggests that he may have been the same person as the subject of this article, for that the statue of the latter by Silanion may have been made from tradition at any time after his death. But Apollodorus is so common a Greek name that no such conclusion can be drawn from the mere mention of it.