Apollonius Eidographus

{{short description|Ancient Greek grammarian}}

Apollonius Eidographus ({{langx|grc|Άπολλώνιος Εἰδογράφος}}) was a writer referred to by the Scholiast on Pindar respecting a contest in which Hiero won the prize.Pindar, P. 2.1 Some writers have thought he was a poet, but from the Etymologicum Magnum,Etymologicum Magnum s. v. εἰδοΔέα it is probable that he was some learned grammarian. He was head of the Library at Alexandria, succeeding Aristophanes of Byzantium and succeeded by Aristarchus of Samothrace.Rudolph Pfeiffer (1968), History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 210. He was called "eidographus" ("the classifier") because he classified lyric poems based on their musical modes.Rudolph Pfeiffer (1968), History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 184.{{cite book |last1=Montanari |first1=Franco |last2=Matthaios |first2=Stefanos |last3=Rengakos |first3=Antonios |title=Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship (2 Vols.) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Qx5CgAAQBAJ&q=%22the+classifier%22 |publisher=BRILL |pages=100–101 |language=en |date=12 May 2015|isbn=9789004281929 }}