Apollodorus ( grc, Ἀπολλόδωρος) of

Cyzicus Cyzicus (; grc, Κύζικος ''Kúzikos''; ota, آیدینجق, ''Aydıncıḳ'') was an ancient Greek town in Mysia in Anatolia in the current Balıkesir Province of Turkey. It was located on the shoreward side of the present Kapıdağ Peni ...

can refer to two different persons from

ancient Greece Ancient Greece ( el, Ἑλλάς, Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of Classical Antiquity, classical antiquity ( AD 600), th ...

: *Apollodorus who lived previous to the time of

Plato Plato ( ; grc-gre, Πλάτων ; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution ...

, who in his dialogue ''Ion'', mentions him as one of the foreigners whom the Athenians had frequently placed at the head of their armies. This statement is repeated by the historian

Claudius Aelianus Claudius Aelianus ( grc, Κλαύδιος Αἰλιανός, Greek transliteration ''Kláudios Ailianós''; c. 175c. 235 AD), commonly Aelian (), born at Praeneste, was a Roman author and teacher of rhetoric who flourished under Septimius Severu ...

, but in what campaigns Apollodorus served the Athenians is not known.

Athenaeus Athenaeus of Naucratis (; grc, Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; la, Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of th ...

, in censuring Plato for his malignity, mentions Apollodorus, and the other foreigners enumerated in the passage of the ''Ion'', as instances of persons calumniated by the philosopher, although the passage does not contain a trace of anything derogatory to them. *Apollodorus, an unknown Greek writer, who is mentioned briefly by the writer Diogenes Laërtius, and is perhaps the same as the Apollodotus of Cyzicus (Ἀπολλόδοτος ὁ Κυζικηνὸς) spoken of by

Clement of Alexandria Titus Flavius Clemens, also known as Clement of Alexandria ( grc , Κλήμης ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; – ), was a Christian theologian and philosopher who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria. Among his pupils were Origen an ...

, '' Stromata'
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