Apollodorus of Cassandreia

Apollodorus was a

Diodorus.^[1]

When Apollodorus had gained his object, about 279 BC, he began his tyrannical reign, which in cruelty, rapaciousness and debauchery has seldom been equalled in any country. The ancients mention him along with the most detestable tyrants that ever lived.[2]

But notwithstanding the support which he derived from the Gauls, who were then penetrating southward, he was unable to maintain himself, and in 276 or 275 he was conquered with the help of the pirate Ameinias the Phocian and put to death by Antigonus II Gonatas.^[3]

Notes

^ Diodorus Siculus XXII Exc. p. 563.
^ Polybius VII 7 ; Seneca, De Ira, II 5, De Benef. VII 19.
Heinsius
, ad Odd. ex Pont. II 9. 43.

References

The Biographical Dictionary, Volume 3

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[1] Diodorus Siculus XXII Exc. p. 563.

[2] Polybius VII 7 ; Seneca, De Ira, II 5, De Benef. VII 19.

[3] Heinsius
, ad Odd. ex Pont. II 9. 43.

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