Apollodorus of Carystus
Apollodorus of Carystus (Greek: 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 Apollodorus of Gela (342—290), also a writer of comedy, a contemporary of Menander. He wrote 47 comedies and obtained the prize five times. Terence borrowed his Hecyra and Phormio from the Hekyra and Epidikazomenos of Apollodorus.[1]
Surviving titles and fragments
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In addition to these twelve 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 Apollodorus of Carystus or Apollodorus of Gela. They are as follows:
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Fragments in Koch, Comicorum Atticorum Fragmenta, ii. (1884)
Notes
- Attribution
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- "Apollodorus of Carystus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
- Augustus Meineke, Historia Critica Comicorum Graecorum (1839)
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