Apollonius Paradoxographus

Apollonius Paradoxographus was the otherwise unknown author of a paradoxographical work entitled Mirabilia or Historiae Mirabiles. This was compiled from the works of earlier writers around the 2nd century BC.^[1]

Nothing is known about Apollonius. His one surviving work, the Mirabilia, is a collection of wonderful phenomena of nature, gathered from the works of Aristotle, Theophrastus, and others.^[2] It was formerly published under the name of Apollonius Dyscolus who was known to have written a work called On Fabricated History,^[3] but which was probably an exposition of certain errors or forgeries which had crept into history.^[2]

Notes

1. Craig A. Evans, (2005), Ancient texts for New Testament studies: a guide to the background literature, page 288. Hendrickson Publishers
2. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Apollonius (16)", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 239
3. Suda, Apollonius α3422