Apollodorus of Athens, an Athenian grammarian, lived about 140 BC He was a prolific and versatile writer. There is extant under his name a treatise, the Bibliotheke, on the gods and the heroic age, a valuable authority on ancient mythology.
Apollodorus of Pergamus , one of the two most prominent teachers of rhetoric in the 1st century BC along with Theodorus of Gadara. His most famous student was Roman emperorCaesar Augustus. Students of Apollodorus were commonly referred to as "Apollodoreans ," while students of Theodorus were known as "Theodoreans ."