He was a native of Alabanda, a pupil of Menecles, and settled at Rhodes, where he opened a school of rhetoric.
[1] Marcus Tullius Cicero studied with him during his trip to Greece in 79–77 BC, as did Gaius Julius Caesar a few years later.
[2] Perhaps it is at least partially due to Apollonius Molon's instruction that Caesar, and Cicero especially, achieved fame as orators in the Roman Republic.
Molon wrote on Homer and endeavored to moderate the florid Asiatic style of rhetoric.
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