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, in the Etymologicum Magnum, and in the Suda. From Athenaeus 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, 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.
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- 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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