Pseudo-Apollodorus (Ψευδοαπολλόδωρος) is the conventional name for the anonymous compiler of the mythological handbook known as the Bibliotheca (Library). The work was once wrongly attributed to Apollodorus of Athens but is now dated on internal evidence to the 1st or 2nd century CE [1][2]. Nothing is known of the author's personal life, but the text places them within the Roman imperial scholarly tradition of systematizing Greek myth.

The sole extant work is the Bibliotheca (Βιβλιοθήκη), a comprehensive prose handbook of Greek mythology surviving in an incomplete state, which traces narratives from the origins of the gods through the heroic age [1][2][3].

The Bibliotheca is an invaluable scholarly compendium. Its significance lies in its systematic synthesis of a vast range of earlier poetic and prose sources, many now lost, providing a crucial witness to the mythological tradition of its era and serving as a primary reference for modern study [1][2][3][4].

Sources 1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Apollodorus): https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/apollodorus/ 2. Encyclopædia Britannica (Apollodorus of Athens): https://www.britannica.com/biography/Apollodorus-of-Athens 3. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics (Apollodorus, Library): https://oxfordre.com/classics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-528 4. Perseus Digital Library (Apollodorus, The Library): http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022