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The most reliable information we have about ancient poets is largely drawn from their own works. Unfortunately, Apollonius of Rhodes reveals nothing about himself. [4] Most of the biographical material comes from four sources: two are texts entitled Life of Apollonius found in the scholia on his work (Vitae A and B); a third is an entry in the 10th-century encyclopaedia the Suda; and fourthly ...
According to some accounts, a hostile reception even led to Apollonius's exile to Rhodes. The literary fashion was for small, meticulous poems, featuring displays of erudition and paradoxography (the account of marvels and oddities), as represented by the work of Callimachus .
The Colossus of Rhodes straddling over the harbor, painting by Ferdinand Knab, 1886. The Colossus of Rhodes (Ancient Greek: ὁ Κολοσσὸς Ῥόδιος, romanized: ho Kolossòs Rhódios; Modern Greek: Κολοσσός της Ρόδου, romanized: Kolossós tis Ródou) [a] was a statue of the Greek sun god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by ...
The title page of Étienne Clavier's 1805 edition and French translation of the Bibliotheca. The Bibliotheca (Ancient Greek: Βιβλιοθήκη, Bibliothēkē, 'Library'), is a compendium of Greek myths and heroic legends, genealogical tables and histories arranged in three books, generally dated to the first or second century AD.
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."
The mythographer Apollodorus calls Ladon the offspring of the monstrous Typhon and Echidna, [4] a parentage repeated by Hyginus [5] and Pherecydes; [6] similarly, Ladon is called the son of Typhon in Tzetzes' Chiliades. [7] According to Ptolemy Hephaestion's New History, as recorded by Photius in his Bibliotheca, Ladon was the brother of the ...
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 ...
Various parents were given for Rhodos. Pindar makes her a daughter of Aphrodite with no father mentioned, [2] although scholia on Pindar add Poseidon as the father; [3] for Herodorus of Heraclea she was the daughter of Aphrodite and Poseidon, [4] while according to Diodorus Siculus she was the daughter of Poseidon and Halia, one of the Telchines, the original rulers of Rhodes. [5]