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A certain "Apollodorus" is indicated as author on some surviving manuscripts (Diller 1983). This Apollodorus has been mistakenly identified with Apollodorus of Athens (born c. 180 BC ), a student of Aristarchus Of Samothrace , mainly as it is known— from references in the minor Scholia on Homer— that Apollodorus of Athens did leave a similar comprehensive repertory on mythology, in the form of a verse chronicle. The text that we possess cites a Roman author, Castor the Annalist, who was a contemporary of Cicero in the first century BC. The mistaken attribution was made by scholars from Patriarch Photius I Of Constantinople onwards. Since for chronological reasons that Apollodorus cannot have written the book, the ''Scriptor Bibliothecae'' ("writer of the ''Library''") is conventionally called the "Pseudo-Apollodorus" by those wishing to be scrupulously correct. Traditional references simply instance "the ''Library and Epitome''". Unfortunately, the ''Bibliotheca'', originally in four books, has not come down to us complete. Part of the third book and the entire fourth book have been lost. On the other hand, we have an '' Epitome '' that was made of the complete edition, and so also of the lost part, leaving us a good summary of its contents. EXTERNAL LINKS FURTHER READING
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