APOLLONIS
Turkey.
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.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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) 45
M; 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, 246-49
MI.
T. S. MACKAY
