APOLLÓDORUS, a celebrated painter of Athens about 408 years before the birth of Christ, was the first who invented the art of mingling colours, and of expressing lights and shades, on which latter account he received the name of Σκιγραψός. He was admired also for his judicious choice of subjects, and for beauty and strength of colouring surpassed all the masters that went before him.
There was also a sculptor of this name who flourished about the same period, and made statues in bronze. He was surnamed the Mad, from his practice of breaking his works in pieces when they did not realize his idea.
APOLLÓDORUS of Carystus, a Greek comic poet, about 300 years B.C., was a native of Eubœa. He wrote, according to Suidas, 47 comedies, and gained the prize five times. His plays were composed at Alexandria, where they were greatly in esteem. The Heceyra and Phormio of Terence are said to have been imitated from this writer.—Meineke, Hist. Crit. Comic. Grace.