APOLLODORUS

apollodorus, an athenian grammarian, pupil of aristarchus and panaetius 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 [greek: bibliothaekae], a valuable authority on ancient mythology. modern critics are of opinion that, if genuine, it is an abridgment of a larger work by him ([greek: peri theon]). 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 muller, _fragmenta historicorum graecorum_, may be mentioned: [greek: chronika], a universal history from the fall of troy to 144 b.c.; [greek: periaegaesis], a gazetteer written in iambics; [greek: peri neon], a work on the homeric catalogue of ships; and a work on etymology ([greek: etymologiai]).