Pseudo-Apollodorus and the Library of Greek Myth

Pseudo-Apollodorus is the conventional name for the anonymous compiler of the mythological handbook known as the 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. 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 Library, a comprehensive prose handbook of Greek mythology surviving in an incomplete state. It traces narratives from the origins of the gods through the heroic age. The Library is an invaluable scholarly compendium. It systematically synthesizes a vast range of earlier poetic and prose sources, many now lost. It is a source for the mythological tradition of its era and serves as a primary reference for modern study.