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APOLLODORUS, an Athenian painter, who flourished at the end of the 5th
century B.C. He is said to have introduced great improvements in
perspective and chiaroscuro. What these were it is impossible to say:
perspective cannot have been in his day at an advanced stage. Among his
works were an Odysseus, a priest in prayer, and an Ajax struck by
lightning.

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]).

APOLLODORUS, of Carystus in Euboea, one of the most important writers of
the New Attic comedy, who flourished at Athens between 300 and 260 B.C.
He is to be distinguished from an older Apollodorus of Gela (342-290),
also a writer of comedy, a contemporary of Menander. He wrote 47
comedies and obtained the prize five times. Terence borrowed his
_Hecyra_ and _Phormio_ from the [Greek: Hekyra] and [Greek:
Epidikazomenos] of Apollodorus.

Fragments in Koch, _Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta_, ii. (1884); see
also Meineke, _Historia Critica Comicorum Graecorum_ (1839).

APOLLODORUS, of Damascus, a famous Greek architect, who flourished
during the 2nd century A.D. He was a favourite of Trajan, for whom he
constructed the stone bridge over the Danube (A.D. 104-105). He also
planned a gymnasium, a college, public baths, the Odeum and the Forum
Trajanum, within the city of Rome; and