Apollodorus was an Athenian grammarian, lived about 140 BC He was a prolific and versatile writer. There is extant under his name a treatise, the Bibliotheke, on the gods and the heroic age, a valuable authority on ancient mythology. Apollodorus was a popular name in the ancient world. ...

Apollodorus was a popular name in the ancient world:

• Apollodorus (painter), an Athenian painter, flourished at the end of the 5th century BC He is said to have introduced great improvements in perspective and chiaroscuro.
• Apollodorus of Carystus, New Comedy playwright.
• Apollodorus of Gela, an older playwright.
• Apollodorus of Damascus 2nd century architect.
• Apollodorus of Pergamum, 1st century BC rhetorician.
• Apollodorus (son of Pasion), son of the 4th century BC banker Pasion.
• Apollodorus the Epicurean, author of the Life of Epicurus, a work famous in ancient Greece but no longer extant.