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
edit- ^ Euripides, Oresteia 1485
- ^ Etymologicum Magnum, s. v. βωμολόχοι
- ^ Suda, s. vv. ά̀ντικρυς, βωμολόχος, Νάνιον, and βδελύσσω
- ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae xi. p. 487
- ^ Natalis Comes, 3.16-18, 9.5
- ^ 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. Vol. 1. p. 233.
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