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The Bibliotheca (or Library), an encyclopedia of Greek mythology, was traditionally attributed to him; it was not written by him, however, as it cites Castor the Annalist, a contemporary of Cicero, providing a terminus post quem after the time of Apollodorus. [2] As a result, the author of the Bibliotheca is often referred to as "Pseudo ...
The Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus is a compressive collection of myths, genealogies and histories that presents a continuous history of Greek mythology from the earliest gods and the origin of the world to the death of Odysseus. [1]
Apollodorus, who placed the battle at Pallene, says the Giants were born "as some say, in Phlegrae, but according to others in Pallene". The name Phlegra and the Gigantomachy were also often associated, by later writers, with a volcanic plain in Italy, west of Naples and east of Cumae , called the Phlegraean Fields . [ 82 ]
In Greek mythology, Orthrus (Ancient Greek: Ὄρθρος, Orthros) or Orthus (Ancient Greek: Ὄρθος, Orthos) was, according to the mythographer Apollodorus, a two-headed dog who guarded Geryon's cattle and was killed by Heracles. [1]
Apollodorus gives a list containing seven names, [7] as well as mentioning five other Oceanids elsewhere. [8] Of these twelve names, eight match Hesiod. [9] Hyginus, at the beginning of his Fabulae, lists sixteen names, while elsewhere he gives the names of ten others. [10] Of these 26 names, only nine are found in Hesiod, the Homeric Hymn, or ...
Apollodorus (Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος Apollodoros) was a popular name in ancient Greece. It is the masculine gender of a noun compounded from Apollo , the deity, and doron, "gift"; that is, "Gift of Apollo."
According to Apollodorus, there were thirteen original Titans, adding the Titaness Dione to Hesiod's list. [65] The Titans (instead of being Uranus' firstborn as in Hesiod) were born after the three Hundred-Handers and the three Cyclopes , [ 66 ] and while Uranus imprisoned these first six of his offspring, he apparently left the Titans free.
Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus) The Bibliotheca (Ancient Greek: Βιβλιοθήκη, Bibliothēkē, 'Library'), also known as the Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus, is a compendium of Greek myths and heroic legends, arranged in three books, generally dated to the first or second century AD.