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APOLLODORUS, an Athenian grammarian, pupil of Aristarchus and Panactius the Stoic, who lived about 140 b.c. He was a prolific and versatile writer. There is extant under his name a treatise on the gods and the heroic age, entitled Βιβλιοθήκη, a valuable authority on ancient mythology. Modern critics are of opinion that, if genuine, it is an abridgment of a larger work by him (Περὶ θεῶν).

Edition, with commentary, by Heyne (1803); text by Wagner (1894) (Mythographi Graeci, vol. i. Teubner series). Amongst other works by him of which only fragments remain, collected in Müller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, may be mentioned: Χρονικά, a universal history from the fall of Troy to 144 b.c.; Περιήγησις, a gazetteer wiitten in iambics; Περὶ Νεῶν, a work on the Homeric catalogue of ships; and a work on etymology (Ἐτυμολογίαι).