Apollonides of Nicaea

Apollonides of Nicaea (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλωνίδης ὁ Νικαεύς) lived in the time of the Roman emperor Tiberius, to whom he dedicated a commentary on the Silloi of Timon of Phlius.[1]

Apollonides wrote several works, all of which are lost:

  • A commentary on the orations of Demosthenes (περὶ παραπρεσβείας).[2]
  • On fictitious stories (περὶ κατεψευσμένων), 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]

  1. ^ Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 9.109
  2. ^ Ammon. s. v. ὄφλειν
  3. ^ Ammon. s. v. κατοίκησις
  4. ^ Anonym. in Vita Arati.
  5. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s. v. Τέρινα
  6. ^ Harpocration s. v. Ἴων
  7. ^ Strabo, Geographica vii. p.309, xi. pp. 523, 528
  8. ^ Pliny the Elder, Natural History 7.2
  9. ^ Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.983, 1174
  10. ^ Florileg. 67.3, 6