Apollodorus of Acarne or Apollodorus of Passion (in ancient Greek Ἀπολλόδωρος, Apollódōros), born in 394 a. C. is known above all for having appeared in several legal discourses of Demosthenes. Biography
He was the son of the banker Passion of Athens, who died in 370 BC. When Apollodorus was twenty-four years old. After the death of Passion, his widow married Chionion, a freedman of Passion, dying in the year 360 BC. C. Chisel became thus the guardian of his minor son Pasicles.
Between the years 370 and 350 a. C. was immersed in a prolonged litigation against Chionion, who had happened to his father, as husband of the widow (and mother of Apolodoro), getting finally to be the greater receiver of the inheritance paternal. Some rhetoric attributed to Demosthenes have come down to us, though some modern historians consider them false, as that of Apollodorus.
Demosthenes wrote the defense speech For Shape, which has been preserved. At that time Apollodorus took the position of an eponymous archon in Athens, after which the rumor circulated that Demosthenes, before the trial, had leaked the defense speech to Apollodorus, and Apollodorus later attacked the witnesses who had supported Formion. Demosthenes wrote for Apollodorus the two extant discourses entitled On the Crown.
Apollodorus was involved in many causes, Demosthenes writing the speeches for him. The last of them was Contra Neera, a hetero, around 340 BC. C. Apolodoro was extremely rich and was invested with trierarchy iiturgy twice, at a time when it was unusual for a person to take that role because of the huge expense involved.
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