. carrying off ofthe tripod byHeracles andits restorationto Apollo(Paus. x. 13 ;Heracles.)Apollocrates (ATroWoicpdrris), elder son ofDionysius the Younger, was left by his fatherin command of the citadel of Syracuse, but wascompelled by famine to surrender it to Dion,about 354 (Plut. Dionys. 37 ; Strab. p. 259.) Apollodorus {AvoWdSupos).—1. Of Amphi-polis, one of the generals of Alexander the Great,was intrusted in 331, together with Menes,with the administration of Babylon and of allthe satrapies as far as Cilicia (Curt. v
. carrying off ofthe tripod byHeracles andits restorationto Apollo(Paus. x. 13 ;Heracles.)Apollocrates (ATroWoicpdrris), elder son ofDionysius the Younger, was left by his fatherin command of the citadel of Syracuse, but wascompelled by famine to surrender it to Dion,about 354 (Plut. Dionys. 37 ; Strab. p. 259.) Apollodorus {AvoWdSupos).—1. Of Amphi-polis, one of the generals of Alexander the Great,was intrusted in 331, together with Menes,with the administration of Babylon and of allthe satrapies as far as Cilicia (Curt. v. 1; 54).—2. Tyrant of Cassandrea (formerlyPotidaea) in the peninsula of Pallene, obtainedthe supreme power in 379, and exercised itwith the utmost cruelty. He was conqueredand put to death by Antigonus Gonatas. ( 7 ; Polyaen. vi. 7; Paus. iv. 5, 1.)—3. OfCarystus, a comic poet, probably lived , and was one of the most distinguishedof the poets of the new Attic Comedy. It wasfrom him that Terence took his Hecyra and. The Belvedere Apollo (in the Vatican). APOLLONIA Phormio.—i. Of Gela in Sicily, a comic poetand a contemporary of Menander, lived He is frequently confounded withApollodorus of Carystus. The fragments of bothare edited by Meineke.—5. A Grammarian ofAthens, son of Asclepiades, and pupil of Ari-starchus and Panaetius, flourished about He wrote a great number of works, whichhave perished, among them the Chronica, ahistory of the world from the fall of Troy to hisown time, and a geographical treatise—both intrimeter iambics. His surviving work is theBibliotlieca, which consists of three books andis of considerable value. It contains a well-arranged account of the mythology and theheroic age of Greece : it begins with the originof the gods, and goes down to the time ofTheseus, when the work suddenly breaks off.—Editions. By Heyne, GSttingen, 1803, 2d ed.;by Clavier, Paris, 1805, with a French trans
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