APOLLONIA, the name of more than thirty cities of an tiquity. The most important are the following : (1) Apollonia Kar' 'Eiribaµvov or irpis 'Er now Pollina, on the right bank of the Aous in Illyria, founded by the Corinthians and Cor cyraeans. It soon became prosperous as the most convenient link between Brundusium and northern Greece, and later as one of the starting-points of the Via Egnatia. Towards the close of the Roman republic it was a seat of literature and philosophy. Here Augustus was being educated when the death of Caesar called him to Rome. It seems to have sunk with the rise of Aulon, and few ruins remain. (2) A Thracian city on the Black sea (afterwards Sozopolis, and now Sizeboli), colonized by Milesians, and famous for its colossal statue of Apollo by Calamis, which Lucullus re moved to Rome.