Apollodorus: The Library (Volume I)

Excerpt from Apollodorus, Vol. 1 of 2: The Library Nothing is positively known, and little can be conjectured with any degree of probability, concerning the author of the Library. Writing in the ninth century of our era the patriarch Photius calls him Apollodorus the Grammarian, and in the manuscripts of his book he is described as Apollodorus the Athenian, Grammarian. Hence we may conclude that Photius and the copyists identified our author with the eminent Athenian grammarian of that name, who flourished about 140 B.C. and wrote a number of learned works, now lost, including an elaborate treatise On the Gods in twenty-four books, and a poetical, or at all events versified, Chronicle in four books.