Apollonia
place · 4 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Apollonia which is in the Ionian gulf · Apollonians
in the texts
Hellenica
City near Olynthus involved in the embassy to Lacedaemon.
Then there came ambassadors to Lacedaemon from Acanthus and Apollonia, which are the largest of the cities in the neighbourhood of Olynthus.
The Olynthians, furthermore, sent to us and to the Apollonians and announced to us that if we did not present ourselves to join them in their campaigns, they would come against us.
At the very beginning of the following spring the Olynthian horsemen, about six hundred in number, had made a raid into the district of Apollonia at midday and were scattered about pillaging;
On Halonnesus
A place named as territory Philip holds and treats as his own.
and in the same way at Olynthus and Apollonia and Pallene he is in possession of his own property, not that of others.
The Histories
A city on the Ionian gulf, setting of the tale of Evenius and the sacred flock.
There is at Apollonia a certain flock sacred to the Sun, which in the daytime is pastured beside the river Chon, which flows from the mountain called Lacmon through the lands of Apollonia and empties into the sea by the harbor of Oricum.
Anabasis
Place supplying additional forces against Xenophon's men.
Then, as the result of their shouting and lighting of beacon fires, there came to their assistance Itamenes with his own force, and from Comania Assyrian hoplites and Hyrcanian horsemen—these also being mercenaries in the service of the King—to the number of eighty, as well as about eight hundred peltasts, and more from Parthenium, and more from Apollonia and from the near-by places, including horsemen.