Apollonides of Nicaea
Apollonides (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλωνίδης) of Nicaea lived in the time of the Roman emperor Tiberius, to whom he dedicated a commentary on the Silloi of Timon of Phlius.[1]
He wrote several works, all of which are lost:
- A commentary on the orations of Demosthenes (περὶ παραπρεσβείας).[2]
- On fictitious stories (περὶ κατεψενσμένων), of which the third and eighth books are mentioned.[3][4]
- A work on proverbs.[5]
- A work on Ion, the tragic poet.[6]
An Apollonides, without any statement as to what was his native country, is mentioned by Strabo,[7] Pliny the Elder,[8] and by the Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes,[9] as the author of a work called Circumnavigation of Europe (περίπλος τῆς Εὐρώπης). Stobaeus quotes some senarii from one Apollonides.[10]
Notes
- ^ Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 9.109
- ^ Ammon. s. v. ὄφλειν
- ^ Ammon. s. v. κατοίκησις
- ^ Anonym. in Vita Arati.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s. v. Τέρινα
- ^ Harpocration s. v. Ἴων
- ^ Strabo, Geographica vii. p.309, xi. pp. 523, 528
- ^ Pliny the Elder, Natural History 7.2
- ^ Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.983, 1174
- ^ Florileg. 67.3, 6
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Apollonides". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 237.