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Apollodorus of Tarsus

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Apollodorus of Tarsus (Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ Ταρσεύς) was a tragic poet of ancient Greece, who is mentioned by Eudocia and in the Suda as having written six tragedies (Child-Killer, Greeks, Odysseus, Supplicants, Thorn-Scourged, and Thyestes); only the titles of these plays have survived. Nothing further is known about him.

There is another Apollodorus of Tarsus, who was probably a grammarian, and wrote commentaries on the early dramatic writers of Greece.

Notes

  1. Suda α 3406
  2. Scholiast on Euripides Medea 148, 169
  3. Scholiast ad Aristoph. Ran. 323, Plut. 535

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, William (1870). "Apollodorus of Tarsus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 235.


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