Apollonia (South coast of Crete)
- Apollonia (South coast of Crete)
Apollonia (Greek: polytonic|Ἀπολλωνία), also called Eleuthera (Greek: polytonic|Ἐλεύθερα) was an ancient city of Crete, on the south coast, of uncertain location. [Steph. Byz. "s.v." polytonic|Ἐλεύθερα] . William Smith states that the philosopher Diogenes Apolloniates was a native of the environs of Apollonia (the "Apolloniates"), although other scholars claim that the Apollonia in question was the Thracian one. [W. Smith, "Dict. of Biog." "s. v."; Kirk, Raven, & Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers (Cambridge, 1983, 2nd edition), p. 434.] The editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World tentatively place Apollonia at Sellia. [Barrington|60 & notes]
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