Apollodorus of Cyrene

Apollodorus of Cyrene (Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ Κυρηναῖος) was a grammarian of ancient Greece who was often cited by other Greek grammarians, as by the Scholiast on Euripides,[1] in the Etymologicum Magnum,[2] and in the Suda.[3] From Athenaeus[4] it would seem that he wrote a work on drinking vessels (ποτήρια), and if we may believe the authority of the 16th-century Italian mythographer Natalis Comes,[5] he also wrote a work on the gods, but this may possibly be a confusion of this Apollodorus with the celebrated grammarian and mythographer Apollodorus of Athens.[6]

Notes
  1. Euripides, Oresteia 1485
  2. Etymologicum Magnum, s. v. βωμολόχοι
  3. Suda, s. vv. ά̀ντικρυς, βωμολόχος, Νάνιον, and βδελύσσω
  4. Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae xi. p. 487
  5. Natalis Comes, 3.16-18, 9.5
  6. Christian Gottlob Heyne, On Apollodorus pp. 1174, &c., 1167

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Apollodorus of Cyrene". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 233.


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