He was the son of Pasion, a wealthy banker who had been granted Athenian citizenship in thanks for the gifts he had made to the city of Athens.
[1] Some time between the birth of Apollodorus and 376 BCE, Pasion was made an Athenian citizen, along with his sons.
[2] In 370 BCE, when Apollodorus was 24, his father died,[3] leaving part of his property in the hands of his bank manager Phormion.
Politically, Apollodorus allied himself with Demosthenes and his anti-Macedonian opinions, in 349–8 BCE proposing the use of the Theoric Fund for military purposes.
[11] Apollodorus was involved in many lawsuits, and seven speeches written for him in these cases are preserved as part of the Demosthenic corpus.