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• Apollodorus of Seleucia — Apollodorus ( el. Ἀπολλόδωρος) of Seleucia, (flourished c. 150 BC), was a Stoic philosopher, and a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon.He wrote a number of handbooks ( el. εισαγωγαι) on Stoicism, including ones on Ethics and Physics which are frequently …   Wikipedia