Son of Asclepiades. Grammarian. One of the pupils of the philosopher Panaetius of Rhodes and the grammarian Aristarchus. He was Athenian by birth. He was the first of the so-called tragiambic poets.
Ἀπολλόδωρος, Ἀσκληπιάδου, γραμματικὸς, εἷς τῶν Παναιτίου τοῦ Ῥοδίου φιλοσόφου καὶ Ἀριστάρχου τοῦ γραμματικοῦ μαθητῶν, Ἀθηναῖος τὸ γένος· ἦρξε δὲ πρῶτος τῶν καλουμένων τραγιάμβων.