Apollonius
27. King of TYRE, is the hero of a Greek romance.
Greek Romance
The author of this is unknown. Barth (Adversar. 58.1) thought that the author was a Christian of the name of Symposius.
Editions
Political Verse version by Constantius or Gabriel Contianus
About the year A. D. 1500, the romance was put into so-called political verse by Constantinus or Gabriel Contianus, and was printed at Venice, 1603, 4to.
Latin Translation
A Latin translation had been published before that time by M. Velserus, under the title, " Narratio eorum quake acciderunt Apollonio Tyrio," Aug. Vindel. 1595, 4to.
Translations
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries this romance was very popular, and was translated into most of the European languages.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.