celebrated painter of Athens, about 403 years before the birth of Christ, was the first who invented the art of mingling the colours, and of expressing the lights and shades. He was admired also for his judicious choice of subjects, and for the beauty and strength of colouring surpassed all the masters that went before him. He excelled likewise in statuary.

Apollodorus the Athenian, a famous grammarian, the son of Asclepiades and disciple of Aristaarchus. He wrote many works not now extant; but his most famous production was his Bibliotheca, concerning the origin of the gods. This work consisted of 24 books, but only three are now in being. Several other pieces of his are to be found in Fabricius's Bibliotheca Graeca. There were various other persons of this name. Scipio Tefiti, a Neapolitan, has written a treatise of the Apollodoriaces, which was printed at Rome in 1555; and Dr Thomas Gale published a work of the same kind in 1675.