Apollodorus ( el, Ἀπολλόδωρος; fl. 2nd century BC) was an

Epicurean Epicureanism is a system of philosophy founded around 307 BC based upon the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus. Epicureanism was originally a challenge to Platonism. Later its main opponent became Stoicism. Few writings by Epi ...

philosopher, and head of the Epicurean school in

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

. According to

Diogenes Laërtius Diogenes Laërtius ( ; grc-gre, Διογένης Λαέρτιος, ; ) was a biographer of the Ancient Greece, Greek philosophers. Nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving ''Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' is a ...

, he was surnamed ''Tyrant of the Garden'' ( el, Κηποτύραννος) from his exercising a kind of tyranny or supremacy in the garden or school of

Epicurus Epicurus (; grc-gre, Ἐπίκουρος ; 341–270 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and sage who founded Epicureanism, a highly influential school of philosophy. He was born on the Greek island of Samos to Athenian parents. Influenced ...

.Diogenes Laërtius, x. 26 He was the teacher of

Zeno of Sidon Zeno of Sidon ( grc-gre, Ζήνων ὁ Σιδώνιος; c. 150 – c. 75 BC) was a Greek Epicurean philosopher from the Seleucid city of Sidon. His writings have not survived, but there are some epitomes of his lectures preserved among the wr ...

, who succeeded him as the head of the school, about 100 BC. He is said to have written upwards of 400 books, but they have all perished. Only two works are mentioned by title. One was called a ''Life of Epicurus''.Diogenes Laërtius, x. 2 He also wrote a ''Collection of Doctrines'', in which he asserted that Epicurus had written a greater amount of original writing than the

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Chrysippus Chrysippus of Soli (; grc-gre, Χρύσιππος ὁ Σολεύς, ; ) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was a native of Soli, Cilicia, but moved to Athens as a young man, where he became a pupil of the Stoic philosopher Cleanthes. When Clean ...

, because although Chrysippus had written 700 books, they were filled with quotations from other authors.Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 180

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