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APOLLODORUS, an Athenian painter, who flourished at the end of the 5th century B.C. He is said to have introduced great improvements in perspective and chiaroscuro. What these were it is impossible to say: perspective cannot have been in his day at an advanced ...

APOLLOS ('AroXXwt; contracted from Apollonius), an Alexandrine Jew who after Paul's first visit to Corinth worked there in a similar way (i Cor. iii. 6). He was with Paul at a later date in Ephesus (i Cor. xvi. n). In i Cor. i. 10-12 we read of four parties in

APOLLONIUS, surnamed 6 6wr<coXos (" the Surly or Crabbed"), a celebrated grammarian of Alexandria, who lived in the reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. He spent the greater part of his life in his native city, where he died; he is also said to have visited R

... source of his strength, and lifting him up from the earth crushed him to death (Apollodorus ii. 5; Hyginus, Fab. 31). The struggle between Antaeus and Heracles is a favourite subject in ancient sculpture.

... e peacock. Argus with his countless eyes originally denoted the starry heavens (Apollodorus ii. i; Aeschylus, P. V. 569; Ovid, Afetam. i. 264). Another ARGUS, the old dog of Odysseus, who recognized his master on his return to Ithaca, figures in one of the bes ...

... ogenes Laertius in his Life of Aristotle, on the authority of the Chronicles of Apollodorus, who lived in the 2nd century B.C. Starting then from this tradition, near enough to the time, we can confidently divide Aristotle's career into four periods: his youth ...

... devotion. She was the mother of Parlhenopaeus, one of the Seven against Thebes (Apollodorus iii. 9 ; Hyginus, Fab. 99). (2) The Boeotian Atalanta was the daughter of Schoeneus. She was famed for her running, and would only consent to marry a suitor who could o ...

... y against him, and, though at first defeated, finally slew Augeas and his sons. Apollodorus ii. 5, 7; Pindar, Olympia, xi, 24; Diodorus iv. 13; Theocritus, Idyll 25.

... that the myth of Europa is only another version of the myth of Persephone. See Apollodorus iii. i; Ovid, Metam. ii. 833; articles by Helbig in Ro«chrr'» Lenkon der Mytkolcpt, and by Mild in Daremberg and Suglio's Dtcttcmnaire tei anlimtitfs. Fig. 26 in the ar ...

... ariot on his journey round the world. According to the best known Attic legend (Apollodorus, i. 5, 2) Triptolemus was the son of Celeus, king of Eleusis, and Metaneira. Demeter, during her search for her daughter Persephone, arrived at Eleusis in the form of a ...