Apollonis

APOLLO´NIS (Ἀπολλωνίς: Eth. Ἀπολλωνίδης, Apollonidensis), a town the position of which is connected with that of Apollonia in Mysia. South of this Apollonia is a ridge of hills, after crossing which the road to Sardis had on the left Thyatira, and on the right Apollonis, which is 300 stadia from Pergamum, and the same distance from Sardis. (Strab. 625.) A village Bullene, apparently the same place that Tournefort calls Balamont, seems to retain part of the ancient name. The place was named after Apollonis, a woman of Cyzicus, and the wife of Attalus, the first king of Pergamum. Cicero mentions the place (pro Flacc. 100.21, 32, ad Q. Fr. 1.2). It was one of the towns which suffered in the great earthquake in these parts in the time of Tiberius. (Tac. Ann. 2.47.) It is mentioned by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 5.30) as a small place. It was subsequently the see of a bishop. There are both autonomous and imperial coins of Apollonis with the epigraph Ἀπολλωνιδεων.

(Ἀπολλωνίς). A city in Lydia, between Pergamus and Sardis, named after Apollonis, the mother of King Eumenes (q.v.).

City in Lydia midway on the road between Sardis and Pergamon (Strab. 13.4.4), founded by Eumenes II of Pergamon (197-160 B.C.). Cicero refers to it as well deserving and prosperous (Flac. 29.71). It is on a hill half an hour's walk N of modern Mecidiye (formerly Palamut). Partly preserved is a large wall circuit with some 24 towers, of Hellenistic coursed trapezoidal (and some polygonal) masonry. Inside are remains of a rectangular building (gymnasium?). On a lower hill to the NW, connected by a saddle, is a smaller fortress. The main wall is thought to date earlier than the 190s. Nearby there was apparently a Macedonian colony, Doidye, not certainly located.

A. Fontrier, Μουσεῖον καὶ βιβλ. Ἐυαγγ. σχολ (1886) 61f; BCH 11 (1887) 85; C. Schuchhardt, AthMitt 13 (1888) 2-17; 24 (1899) 153-56 P; J. Keil & A. von Premerstein, “Bericht über eine Reise in Lydien 1906,” DenkschrWien 53, 2 (1908) 45M; id., “Bericht über eine zweite Reise, 1908,” ibid., 54, 2 (1911) 53-58; P. Herrmann, “Neue Inschriften zur Hist. Landeskunde von Lydien,” ibid. 77, 1 (1959) 6-10; L. Robert, Villes de l'Asie Mineure (2d ed. 1962) 24ff, 246-49MI.