Ignored Roman Influence

After his resurrection Hippolytus is said to have gone to dwell at Aricia, on the Alban Hills, near Rome, where he reigned as a king and dedicated a precinct to Diana. See Paus. 2.27.4; Verg. A. 7.761ff., with the commentary of Servius; Ovid, Fasti iii.263ff., v.735ff.; Ov. Met. 15.297ff.; Scholiast on Persius, Sat. vi.56, pp. 347ff., ed. O. Jahn; Lactantius, Divin. Inst. i.17; Scriptores rerum mythicarum Latini, ed. Bode, i. p. 118 （Second Vatican Mythographer 128）. The silence of Apollodorus as to this well-known Italian legend, which was told to account for the famous priesthood of Diana at Aricia, like his complete silence as to Rome, which he never mentions, tends to show that Apollodorus either deliberately ignored the Roman empire or wrote at a time when there was but little intercourse between Greece and that part of Italy which was under Roman rule.


- Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library, Book 3, Chapter 10, Section 3 (translator footnote)


(Note: This is just one quote I found while reading through Pseudo-Apollodorus' The Library about how the author seemingly tried to ignore Roman influence on his work. For a more in-depth look at the topic, I'd suggest reading "Systematic Genealogies in Apollodorus' Bibliotheca and the Exclusion of Rome from Greek Myth" by K. F. B. Fletcher.)