Apollodorus of Carystus in Euboea was one of the most important writers of the Attic New Comedy, who flourished in Athens between 300 and 260 B.C. He is to be distinguished from the older Apollodorus of Gela (342—290), also a writer of comedy. A contemporary of Menander, he wrote 47 comedies and attained the prize five times. Euboea, or Negropont (Greek: Εύβοια, modern transliteration: Evvoia, Evvia or Evia), is the largest island of the Greek archipelago. ... The Acropolis in central Athens, one of the most important landmarks in world history. ... For the Indo-Greek king (160–135 BC) see Menander the Just. ...
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Apollodorus, an Athenian painter, flourished at the end of the 5th century B.C. He is said to have introduced great improvements in perspective[?] and chiaroscuro.
Apollodorus of Carystus in Euboea[?] was one of the most important writers of the New Attic comedy, who flourished in Athens between 300 and 260 B.C. He is to be distinguished from the older Apollodorus of Gela (342290), also a writer of comedy.
Apollodorus of Damascus, a famous Greek architect, 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. He also planned a gymnasium, a colIege, public baths, the Odeum and the Forum Trajanum.
These maxims (chiefly monostichs) were afterwards collected, and, with additions from other sources, were edited as MEVavbpov -yvW,uat povovrLXot, a kind of moral textbook for the use of schools.
The original of Terence's Hecyra (as of the Phormio) is generally supposed to be, not Menander, but Apollodorus of Carystus.
The Bacchides and Stichus of Plautus were probably based upon Menander's Lis 'EEarrarandv and c I 3 cX6SEXchoc, but the Poenulus does not seem to be from the KapXrpSovtos, nor the Mostellaria from the c l)aQµa, in spite of the similarity of titles.
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