What is "apollonides"

Apollonides (fl. 46 BC) was a Stoic philosopher. He was a friend and companion of Cato the Younger.

The sole record of Apollonides is within Plutarch's account of Cato the Younger in Parallel Lives. From this account, there is evidence that after the Battle of Thapsus, Apollonides was present with Cato at Utica. During this time, Cato ordered a young man named Statyllius to leave Utica. When Statyllius refused, Cato appointed Apollonides and Demetrius the Peripatetic to "reduce this man's swollen pride and restore him to conformity with his best interests." When Cato later inquired if Statyllius was sent off, Apollonides responded:

In preparation for his suicide, Cato had everyone present leave his side, with the exception of Apollonides and Demetrius. Cato's character is emphasized in this choice as "it says a great deal about Cato that he saved his last real conversation for his philosophers, not his son."

Apollonides was an ancient Greek male name.

• Apollonides of Smyrna or Apollonides Smyrnaeus, epigrammatist
• Apollonides of Sicyon fl. 186 BC, Achaean statesman
• Apollonides (physician), a physician who lived around the 1st or 2nd century
• Apollonides (governor of Argos), appointed by Cassander by 315 BC
• Apollonides of Boeotia, ancient Greek soldier
• Apollonides of Cardia, contemporary of Philip of Macedonia
• Apollonides of Chios, chief of Persian guard in Chios at the time of Alexander the Great, 332 BC
• Apollonides of Cos, Greek physician of the 5th century BC, and a central character of Ctesias' history
• Apollonides of Nicaea, Greek grammarian of the time of Emperor Tiberius
• Apollonides (philosopher), stoic philosopher of the 1st century, friend of Cato the Younger
• Apollonides of Olynthus, a general in the time of Philip II of Macedon
• Apollonides of Orapius, ancient Greek writer who wrote a work on Egypt
• Apollonides of Sparta, treasurer of 2nd century BCE
• Apollonides of Syracuse, a notable citizen during the Second Punic War
• Apollonides (poet), tragic poet

Apollonides or Apollonidas was governor of Argos in ancient Greece. He was raised to this office by Cassander. In the year 315 BCE, he invaded Arcadia, and got possession of the town of Stymphalus (modern Stymfalia). The majority of the Argives were hostile towards Cassander, and while Apollonides was engaged in Arcadia, they invited Alexander, the son of Polyperchon, and promised to surrender their town to him. But Alexander was not quick enough, and Apollonides, who seems to have been informed of the plan, suddenly returned to Argos. About 500 senators were at the time assembled in the prytaneum: Apollonides had all the doors of the house well guarded, that none of them might escape, and then set fire to it, so that all perished in the flames. The other Argives who had taken part in the conspiracy were partly exiled and partly put to death.

Apollonides was a tragic poet of ancient Greece, concerning whom nothing is known. Two verses of one of his dramas are preserved in Clement of Alexandria and Stobaeus.

Apollonides was the name of a number of physicians of ancient Greece:

• Apollonides of Cos
• Another Greek physician, who must have lived in the first or second century, as he is said by Galen to have differed from Archigenes respecting the state of the pulse during sleep. No other particulars are known of his history; but he is sometimes confounded with Apollonius of Cyprus, a mistake which has arisen from reading Apollonidon instead of "Apolloniou" in the passage of Galen where the latter physician is mentioned. He may perhaps be the same person who is mentioned by Artemidorus, and Aëtius of Amida, in which last passage the name is spelled "Apolloniades".