Apollonides of Nicaea

Apollonides of Nicaea (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλωνίδης ὁ Νικαεύς) lived in the time of the Roman emperor Tiberius, to whom he dedicated a commentary on the Silloi of Timon of Phlius.^[1]

Apollonides wrote several works, all of which are lost:

• A commentary on the orations of Demosthenes (περὶ παραπρεσβείας).^[2]
• On fictitious stories (περὶ κατεψευσμένων), of which the third and eighth books are mentioned.^[3][4]
• A work on proverbs.^[5]
• A work on Ion, the tragic poet.^[6]

An Apollonides, without any statement as to what was his native country, is mentioned by Strabo,^[7] Pliny the Elder,^[8] and by the Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes,^[9] as the author of a work called Circumnavigation of Europe (περίπλος τῆς Εὐρώπης). Stobaeus quotes some senarii from one Apollonides.^[10]