Editing Apion (section)

==Works==
Apion wrote several works, none of which has survived. The well-known story "[[Androcles|Androclus and the Lion]]", which is preserved in [[Aulus Gellius]],<ref>Aulus Gellius. ''Attic Nights'' V.xiv''</ref> is from his work: ''Aegyptiaca/''Αἰγυπτιακά ''("Wonders of Egypt")''. The surviving fragments of his work are printed in the ''Etymologicum Gudianum'', ed. Sturz, 1818.

*''Upon Homer'', whose poems seem to have formed the principal part of his studies, for he is said not only to have made the best recension of the text of the poems, but to have written explanations of phrases and words in the form of a dictionary (Λέξεις Ὁμηρικαί), and investigations concerning the life and native country of the poet. The best part of his Λέξεις Ὁμηρικαί are supposed to be incorporated in the Homeric Lexicon of Apollonius.<ref>Villoison, Proleg. ad Apollon. p. ix. &c.</ref> Apion's labors upon Homer are often referred to by Eustathius and other grammarians.
*A work on Egypt (Αἰγυπτιακά) consisting of five books, which was highly valued in antiquity, for it contained descriptions of nearly all the remarkable objects in Egypt. It also contained numerous attacks upon the Jews.<ref>Euseb. ''Praep. Evang.'' 10.10</ref><ref>Gel. 5.14</ref><ref>[[Pliny the Elder]], ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Natural History]]'' 37.19</ref>
*A work in praise of Alexander the Great.<ref>Gel. 6.8</ref>
*Histories of separate countries. (Ἱστορία κατὰ ἔθνος, [[Suda]] ''s. v.'' Ἀπίων.)
*On the celebrated glutton [[Marcus Gavius Apicius|Apicius]].<ref>Athen. 7.294, xv. p. 680</ref>
*''On the language of the Romans'' (Περὶ τῆς ‛Ρωμαίων διαλέκτου).<ref>Athen. 7.294, xv. p. 680</ref>
*''De metallica disciplina''.<ref>Plin. ''Elench.'' lib. xxxv</ref>
*''Androclus and the Lion'' and ''The Dolphin near Dicaearchia''. The greatest fragments of the works of Apion are the story about Androclus and his lion, and about the dolphin near Dicaearchia.