Apollodorus of

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( el, Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ Γελῷος) in

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was a

New Comedy Ancient Greek comedy was one of the final three principal dramatic forms in the theatre of classical Greece (the others being tragedy and the satyr play). Athenian comedy is conventionally divided into three periods: Old Comedy, Middle Comedy, an ...

playwright. According to

Eudokia Makrembolitissa Eudokia Makrembolitissa ( el, Εὐδοκία Μακρεμβολίτισσα, Eudocia Macrembolitissa) was a Byzantine empress by her successive marriages to Constantine X Doukas and Romanos IV Diogenes. She acted as regent of her minor son, Mi ...

and the

Suda The ''Suda'' or ''Souda'' (; grc-x-medieval, Σοῦδα, Soûda; la, Suidae Lexicon) is a large 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, formerly attributed to an author called Soudas (Σούδας) or Souidas ...

, he was a contemporary of

Menander Menander (; grc-gre, Μένανδρος ''Menandros''; c. 342/41 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. He wrote 108 comedies and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. His rec ...

, and accordingly lived between the years 340 and 290 BC. Both the

and Eudokia attribute to him seven comedies, of which they give the titles. But while the editors of the Suda ascribes them to Apollodorus of Gela, they assign one of these same comedies in another passage to

Apollodorus of Carystus Apollodorus of Carystus ( el, Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ Καρύστιος) in Euboea, was one of the most important writers of the Attic New Comedy, who flourished in Athens between 300 and 260 B.C. He is to be distinguished from the older Apoll ...

. Other writers also frequently confound the two comic poets.

August Meineke Johann Albrecht Friedrich August Meineke (also ''Augustus Meineke''; ; 8 December 179012 December 1870), German classical scholar, was born at Soest in the Duchy of Westphalia. He was father-in-law to philologist Theodor Bergk.

, ''Hist. Cril. Comic. Graec.'' p. 459, &c.

Surviving Titles and Fragments

*''Aischrion'' ("Aeschrion") *''Apoleipousa'' ("The Woman Who Leaves") *''Grammateidiopoios'' ("Maker of Writing Tablets") *''Deusopoios'' ("The Cloth-Dyer") *''Sisyphus'' ("Sisyphus") *''Philadelphoi'' ("Brother-Loving Men") or ''Apokarteron'' ("Man Who is Starving Himself") *''Pseudaias'' ("The False Ajax") In addition to these seven plays, there are nine other titles (and associated fragments) which are only credited to "Apollodorus" by the ancient authorities, without specifying whether they were written by

or Apollodorus of Gela. They are as follows: *''Adelphoi'' ("Brothers") *''Aphanizomenos'' ("The Disappearing Man") *''Galatai'' ("The Galatians") *''Diamartanon'' ("The Man Who Is Failing Utterly") *''Kitharodos'' ("The

Citharode A kitharode ( Latinized citharode) : ( translit. Greek) * citharode ( Anglicised translit. Latin) * kitharode ( Anglicised translit. Greek) : * citharede (rare) * citharoede (rare) : * citharist (English translation Latin) * kitharist (English ...

") *''Lakaina'' ("The Laconian Woman") *''Paidion'' ("The Little Child") *''Paralogizomenoi'' ("The Beguiling Men") *''Synepheboi'' ("People Who Were Adolescents Together")

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