What is "apollonius"

Apollonius may be:

• Apollonius of Ascalon, a historian mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v. Ἀσκαλών), about whom nothing further is known.
• Apollonius Cronus (fl. 4th century BC), philosopher of the Megarian school
• Apollonius of Rhodes (born c. 270 BC), librarian and poet
• Apollonius of Aphrodisias (fl. c. 3rd century BC), historian of Caria ( FGrHist no. 740)
• Apollonius of Perga (262–190 BC), geometer and astronomer
• Apollonius of Tralles (fl. 2nd century BC), sculptor
• Apollonius (ambassador), (fl. 2nd century BC) ambassador sent from the Seleucid Empire
• Apollonius of Clazomenae, (fl. 2nd century BC) ambassador sent to the Seleucid Empire
• Apollonius (Seleucid), (fl. 2nd century BC) a friend of Demetrius I Soter
• Apollonius of Drepanum, (fl. 2nd century BC) notable citizen of Sicily
• Apollonius paradoxographus (fl. 2nd century BC), paradoxographer
• Apollonius of Sicily, leader of a revolt in 103 BCE
• Apollonius (physician), several physicians in Ancient Greece and Rome
• Apollonius the Effeminate (fl. 120 BC) a Greek rhetorician of Alabanda in Caria
• Apollonius Molon (fl. 70 BC), rhetorician
• Apollonius of Tyre (philosopher) (fl. 60 BC), Stoic philosopher
• Apollonius of Athens (sculptor) (fl. 1st century BC), sculptor
• Apollonius of Citium (fl. 1st century BC), physician
• Apollonius (tyrant), (fl. 1st century BC), Mesopotamian tyrant
• Apollonius the Sophist, a grammarian who lived towards the end of the 1st century, and wrote a renowned Homeric lexicon
• Apollonius of Tyana (c. 40 – c. 100 AD), NeoPythagorean philosopher
• Apollonius of Alexandria (fl. 1st century AD), (Apollos) (Ἀπολλώς), Jewish Christian mentioned several times in the New Testament
• Apollonius of Athens, (fl. 2nd century AD), sophist and rhetorician (sometimes called Apollonius of Naucratis)
• Apollonius Dyscolus (fl. 2nd century AD), grammarian
• Apollonius the Apologist (died c. 186 AD), religious leader
• Apollonius of Ephesus (fl. 180–210 AD), religious leader and writer
• Apollonius (praetorian prefect) (442–443), Roman Praetorian prefect
• Apollonius (magister militum) (fl. 443–451), Eastern Roman general
• Apollonius (consul 460), consul in 460
• Apollonius of Acharnae, ancient Greek writer on festivals
• Apollonius Attaleus, a writer on dreams
• Apollonius (son of Sotades), writer, and son of poet Sotades
• Apollonius (son of Charinus), politician under Alexander the Great
• Apollonius (son of Chaeris), ancient Greek writer, mentioned by the scholiast on Aristophanes
• Apollonius of Chalcedon, philosophy tutor to the son of the emperor Antoninus Pius
• Apollonius (freedman), or Publius Licinius Apollonius, secretary of Publius Licinius Crassus
• Apollonius (bishop of Ephesus), 2nd century Christian writer
• Apollonius (martyr), Christian martyr of the 2nd century
• Apollonius of Egypt, theorist on the age of the world
• Apollonius Eidographus, ancient Greek grammarian
• Apollonius of Laodicea, writer on astrology
• Apollonius of Myndus, ancient astrologer said to be skilled with horoscopes
• Apollonius of Syria, platonic philosopher
• Apollonius of Tyre (philosopher), stoic philosopher
• Apollonius (son of Archias), a sculptor
• Apollonius (satyr sculptor), a sculptor

• Apollonius of Tyre, medieval fictional character
• Apollonius (crater), on moon
• Apollonius' theorem, an elementary geometry theorem about triangles
• Circles of Apollonius

Apollonius is a lunar crater located near the eastern limb of the Moon. It lies in the region of uplands to the west of Mare Undarum and northeast of the Sinus Successus on the Mare Fecunditatis. It is southwest of the crater Firmicus, and north of Condon.

The outer rim of Apollonius is somewhat worn and is overlain by a pair of small craters (including Apollonius E) across the western wall. The nearly flat interior floor has a low albedo and has been covered by lava. It lacks a central peak or notable small craters across the bottom.

Apollonius (fl. 443–451) was a general of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Flavius Apollonius (floruit 460) was an East Roman consul in 460.

He could be identified with that Apollonius who was praetorian prefect of the East in 442-443, or with that Apollonius who was magister militum in 443-451.

Apollonius (floruit 436-451) was a politician of the Eastern Roman Empire.

He was comes sacrarum largitionum in 436, then Praetorian prefect of the East from August 21, 442 to May 22, 443. Apollonius attended to the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

He might be the Apollonius who was consul in 460.

Apollonius was a tyrant of a town in Mesopotamia the Greeks called Zenodotion in the 1st century BCE.

When the Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus entered the region, no city resisted his invasion besides Zenodotion. The city allowed 100 of Crassus's soldiers to enter the town as if the town meant to surrender, but then slaughtered the soldiers. In retaliation, Crassus brought his entire army to bear on Zenodotion, captured and sacked the city, and sold its inhabitants into slavery.

Apollonius was the spokesman of an embassy sent by the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes to Rome in 173 BCE. He brought from Antiochus tribute and rich presents, and requested that the Roman Senate would renew with Antiochus the alliance which had existed between his father, Antiochus III the Great, and the Romans.

Apollonius was the name of several physicians in the time of Ancient Greece and Rome:

• Apollonius Antiochenus, (or Apollonius of Antioch), was the name of two physicians, father and son, who were born at Antioch, and belonged to the Empiric school. They lived after Serapion of Alexandria, and before Menodotus, and therefore lived in the 2nd or 1st century BC. One of them is probably the physician called Apollonius Empiricus; the other may be Apollonius Senior.
• Apollonius Archistrator, was the author of a medical prescription quoted by Andromachus, and must therefore have lived in or before the 1st century BC. Nothing is known about the events of his life.
• Apollonius Biblas, lived probably in the 2nd century BC, and wrote, after Zeno's death, a book in answer to a work he composed on the meaning of certain marks (charakteres) that are found at the end of some chapters in the third book of the Epidemics of Hippocrates. It seems likely that he is not the same person as Apollonius Empiricus. His name is probably connected with the word bibliakos, and suggests that he was a " book worm".
• Apollonius Cittensis, (or Apollonius of Citium), 1st century BC, the oldest commentator on Hippocrates whose works are still extant. See Apollonius of Citium.
• Apollonius Claudius, must have lived in or before the 2nd century AD, as one of his antidotes is quoted by Galen. Nothing is known of his life.
• Apollonius Cyprius, (or Apollonius of Cyprus), was the pupil of Olympicus, and the tutor to Julianus. He was a native of Cyprus, belonged to the Methodic school, and probably lived in the 1st century AD. Nothing more is known of his life.
• Apollonius Empiricus, perhaps one of the physicians called Apollonius Antiochenus. He lived, according to Celsus, after Serapion of Alexandria, and before Heraclides of Tarentum, and therefore probably lived in the 2nd century BC. He belonged to the Empiric school, and like Apollonius Biblas, wrote a book in answer to Zeno's work on the marks (charakteres) in Hippocrates. This was answered by Zeno, and it was this second work that drew from Apollonius Biblas his treatise on the subject after Zeno's death. He is also mention by Galen.
• Apollonius Glaucus, must have lived in or before the 2nd century AD, as his work On Internal Diseases is quoted by Caelius Aurelianus. Nothing is known of his life.
• Apollonius Herophileius, is perhaps the same person as Apollonius Mus. He wrote a pharmaceutical work entitled Peri Euporiston, , and of which some fragments are quoted in Cramer's Anecd. Graeca Paris, as still existing in manuscript in the Royal Library in Paris. He lived earlier than Andromachus who quotes him, and also before Archigenes; hence he may have lived in or before the 1st century BC. He was a follower of Herophilus, and is said by Galen to have lived for some time at Alexandria. His work, Peri Myron, On Ointments, is quoted by Athenaeus, and he is also mentioned by Caelius Aurelianus.
• Apollonius Hippocraticus, is said by Galen, to have been a pupil of Hippocrates, and must therefore have lived in the 4th century BC. He is blamed by Erasistratus for his excessive severity in restricting the quantity of drink allowed to his patients.
• Apollonius Memphites (or Apollonius of Memphis), was born at Memphis in Egypt, and was a follower of Erasistratus. He must therefore have lived around the 3rd century BC, and is probably the same person as Apollonius Stratonicus. He wrote a work On the Names of the Parts of the Human Body, and is quoted by Erotianus, Galen, Nicolaus Myrepsus, and other ancient writers.
• Apollonius Mus, a follower of Herophilus. Nothing is known about his life, but he must have lived in the 1st century BC, as Strabo mentions him as a contemporary. He was a fellow-pupil of Heraclides of Erythrae, and composed a long work on the opinions of the sect founded by Herophilus. He also wrote on pharmacy, and is perhaps the same person as Apollonius Herophileius.
• Apollonius Ophis, is said by Erotianus, to have made a compilation from the Glossary of difficult Hippocratic words by Bacchius; he must therefore have lived about the 2nd or 1st century BC. He may be the same person as Apollonius Pergamenus, or Apollonius Ther.
• Apollonius Organicus, is quote by Galen, and must therefore have lived in or before the 2nd century AD. Nothing is known of his life.
• Apollonius Pergamenus (or Apollonius of Pergamon), is perhaps the same person as Apollonius Ophis, or Apollonius Ther. He was born at Pergamon in Mysia, but his date is uncertain; he is quoted by Oribasius, and must have lived before the 4th century AD. He is probably the author of a long extract on Scarification preserved by Oribasius.
• Apollonius Pitaneus (or Apollonius of Pitane), was born at Pitane in Aeolia, and must have lived in to before the 1st century AD, as an absurd and superstitious remedy is attributed to him by Pliny.
• Apollonius Senior, is quoted by Erotianus, and must therefore have lived in or before the 1st century AD. He may be one of the physicians called Apollonius Antiochenus.
• Apollonius Stratonicus, was probably not the son, but the pupil, of Strato of Beryta. He is likely the same person as Apollonius Memphites, and may have lived about the 3rd century BC. He was a follower of Erasistratus, and wrote a work on the Pulse, which is quoted by Galen.
• Apollonius Tarensis (or Apollonius of Tarsus), was born at Tarsus in Cilicia, and lived perhaps in the 1st or 2nd century AD. His prescriptions are several times quoted by Galen.
• Apollonius Ther, is perhaps the same person as Apollonius Ophis or Apollonius Pergamenus. He is quoted by Erotianus, and must have lived in or before the 1st century AD.

Another physician of this name, who is mentioned by Apuleius, as having been bitten by a mad dog, must (if he ever really existed) have lived in the 2nd century AD. The name occurs in several ancient authors, belonging to one or more physicians, without any distinguishing epithet.

Apollonius was a man of the Seleucid Empire who lived in the 2nd century BCE.

He was a friend of the Seleucid ruler Demetrius I Soter when the latter was a young man. When Demetrius, at the age of 10, was sent to Rome as a hostage in 175 BCE, Apollonius went with him, and supported him with his advice. Apollonius had been educated together with Demetrius, and their two families had been long connected by friendship. The father of Apollonius, who bore the same name, had possessed great influence with Demetrius's father, the ruler Seleucus IV Philopator.

Apollonius of Athens was a son of the ribald poet Sotades. He wrote a work on the poetry of his father. He lived in the late 3rd century BCE.

Apollonius , son of Charinus, was appointed by Alexander the Great, before leaving Egypt, as governor of the part of Libya on the confines of Egypt in 331 BCE.

Apollonius , son of Chaeris, was a writer of ancient Greece, who is referred to by the scholiast on Aristophanes, and the Venetian Scholiast on Homer. He is otherwise unknown.

Apollonius was a freedman of Publius Licinius Crassus in ancient Rome in the 1st century BCE.

He afterwards became a useful friend of Cicero's, and served in the army of Julius Caesar in the Alexandrine war, and also followed him into Spain. He was a man of great diligence and learning, and anxious to write a history of the exploits of Caesar. For this reason Cicero gave him a very flattering letter of recommendation to Caesar.

He is also believed to have written a biography of Crassus. Since he was manumitted as a term of Publius's will, he is by Roman custom likely to have taken the name Publius Licinius Apollonius as a freedman. The highly laudatory account of Publius's death found in Plutarch suggests that Apollonius's biography was a source.

Apollonius was a Christian writer whose parents and country are unknown, but who is believed to have been bishop of Ephesus, and to have lived about the year 192. He wrote a work exposing the conduct and practices of the Christian sect called Cataphryges, some fragments of which are preserved in the works of the church historian Eusebius. Christian writer Tertullian defended the sect of the Montanists against this Apollonius, and the seventh book of his work On Ecstasies was especially directed against Apollonius.

Apollonius was a Christian of ancient Rome who was executed in the 2nd century, during the reign of the Roman emperor Commodus. He is said to have been a Roman senator. At his trial he mounted a defense of Christianity in the Roman senate, which was afterwards translated into Greek and inserted by church historian Eusebius in his history of the Christian martyrs, but is now lost.

Nikephoros I of Constantinople confuses this Apollonius with the Apollonius who wrote against the Cataphryges.

Apollonius , the son of Archias, was an Athenian sculptor around the 1st century. He made the bronze head of the young hero, which was found at Herculaneum and is engraved in the Mus. Hercul. i. tab. 45. It bears the inscription, ΑΠΟΛΛΟΝΙΟΣ ΑΠΧΙΟΥ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΟΣ ΕΠΩΗΣΕ. It probably belongs to the period about the birth of Jesus.

Apollonius was an obscure sculptor of ancient Greece. His name is inscribed on the marble statue of a young satyr - sometimes referred to as Satyr Pouring Wine (though different from the statue of that name by Praxiteles) - that was unearthed by archaeologist Gavin Hamilton in Campagna. We know that in the 19th century this statue was in the collection of the Earl of Egremont, at Petworth, Sussex; its current whereabouts are unknown.