Apollodorus of Tarsus
Apollodorus of Tarsus was a tragic poet of ancient Greece, who is mentioned by Eudocia and in the Suda as having written six tragedies (Child-Killer (Τεκνοκτόνος), Greeks (Ἕλληνες), Odysseus (Ὀδυσσεύς), Suppliants (Ἱκέτιδες), Thorn-Scourged (Ἀκανθοπλὴξ), and Thyestes (Θυέστης); 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.
Apollodorus of Tarsus
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Apollodorus of Tarsus was a tragic poet of ancient Greece, who is mentioned by Eudocia and in the Suda as having written six tragedies (Child-Killer (Τεκνοκτόνος), Greeks (Ἕλληνες), Odysseus (Ὀδυσσεύς), Suppliants (Ἱκέτιδες), Thorn-Scourged (Ἀκανθοπλὴξ), and Thyestes (Θυέστης); 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.
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- 1.Suda, alpha, 3406
- 2.Scholiast on Euripides Medea 148, 169
- 3.Scholiast ad Aristoph. Ran. 323, Plut. 535
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