Apollodorus of Athens (ancient Greek Ἀπολλόδωρος), Athens, (c. 180 BC.) -Pérgamo (119 a.), Grammarian, historian and Greek mythographer, also called Apollodorus the Grammarian.

Born in Athens, he settled in Alexandria, where he was a pupil of Aristarchus of Samothrace, and flourished (floruit) to the 140. C. militated in the philosophical school of Epicurus. In the year 146 a. C. left Alexandria and settled in Pergamum. He died in 119 a. C.

The ancients erroneously attributed an epitome of prose entitled Βιβλιοθήκη mythology, known as mythological Library, where they tried to reconcile the different versions of each myth featuring poets. The work has been preserved only in part, but it is one of the main sources for the study of Greek mythology. Apparently this is an anonymous collection actually made ​​in the first or second century. This Scriptor Bibliothecae ('Library writer') is generally referred to as the "Pseudo-Apollodorus" to differentiate Apollodorus of Athens. Other traditional references simply indicate "Library and Epitome."

Yes, authored a treatise On the Gods and a pamphlet on the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad insert which was used as a source in the Geography of Strabo. Are also important in some iambic verses Chronicles where the chronology of the history of Greece was established after the fall of Troy to the 144th. C., for there appear only data on the Archons of Athens. He also wrote several works of grammar and criticism.