APOLLODORUS, of Carystus in Euboea, one of the most important writers of the New Attic comedy, who flourished at Athens between 30o 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 ob tained the prize five times. Terence borrowed his Hecyra and Phormio from the `Ercvph and 'EiriSticaOuevos of Apollodorus.