APOLLODORUS (c. 144 B.c.), an Athenian grammarian, pupil of Aristarchus and Panaetius the Stoic. There is extant under his name a treatise on the gods and the heroic age, entitled BLj3XLOOrlrcrl, a valuable authority on ancient mythology. Modern critics are of opinion that, if genuine, it is an abridgment of a larger work by him (HEpi .
BIBLIOGRAPHY.—Edition, with commentary, by Heyne (1803) ; Bibliography.—Edition, with commentary, by Heyne (1803) ; text by Wagner (1894) Mythographi Graeci, vol. i. (Teubner series) ; text and Eng. trans. by Sir J. G. Frazer (Loeb series, 1921). Amongst other works by him of which only fragments remain, collected in Muller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, may be mentioned: Xpovuch, a work on chronology from the fall of Troy to 144 B.c. (Diels, in Rhein. Mus., xxxi. if), IIeodryi oss, a gazetteer written in iambics; IIEpt Newv, a work on the Homeric catalogue of ships (B.
Niese in Rhein Mus., xxxii. 3o6) and a work on etymology ('Erv,uoXoyiaL). See Schwarz in Pauly-Wissowa pp. ; also F. Jacoby, Apollodors Chronik (1902) ; J. Nicole, Le Proces de Phidias (d'aprtis un papyrus inedit) (Geneva, 191o) .