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Apollodorus Carystus Edit Profile

dramaturge comedy writer

Apollodorus of Carystus in Euboea, was one of the most important writers of the Attic New Comedy, who flourished in Athens between 300 and 260 British Columbia He is to be distinguished from the older Apollodorus of Gela, also a writer of comedy, a contemporary of Menander.

Career

He wrote 47 comedies and obtained the prize five times. Terence"s Hecyra and Phormio were adapted from the Hekyra and Epidikazomenos of Apollodorus.