Apollodorus of Tarsus

Apollodorus of Tarsus ({{langx|el|Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ Ταρσεύς}}) was a tragic poet of ancient Greece, who is mentioned by Eudocia and in the Suda as having written six tragedies (Child-Killer, Greeks, Odysseus, Supplicants, Thorn-Scourged, and Thyestes);Suda α 3406 only the titles of these plays have survived. Nothing further is known about him.

There is another Apollodorus of Tarsus, who was probably a grammarian, and wrote commentaries on the early dramatic writers of Greece.Scholiast on Euripides Medea 148, 169Scholiast ad Aristoph. Ran. 323, Plut. 535

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Category:Ancient Greek writers known only from secondary sources

Category:Ancient Greek grammarians

Category:People from Tarsus, Mersin

Category:Ancient Greek tragic poets

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