Apollodorus of Tarsus () was a tragic poet of ancient Greece, who is mentioned by Eudocia and in the Suda as having written six tragedies (Child-Killer (Τεκνοκτόνος), Greeks (Ἕλληνες), Odysseus (Ὀδυσσεύς), Suppliants (Ἱκέτιδες), Thorn-Scourged (Ἀκανθοπλὴξ), and Thyestes (Θυέστης);Suda, alpha, 3406 only the titles of these plays have survived. Nothing further is known about him.
There is another Apollodorus of Tarsus, who was probably a grammarian, and wrote commentaries on the early dramatic writers of Greece.Scholiast on Euripides Medea 148, 169Scholiast ad Aristoph. Ran. 323, Plut. 535
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