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Headword: Apollônias
Adler number: alpha,3415
Translated headword: Apollonias, Apollonis
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The wedded wife of Attalos, the father of King Eumenes.[1] She was a commoner who became queen, and maintained that high status until her final day, behaving not with a courtesan's seductiveness but with a prudent and civilized dignity and nobility. For she gave birth to four sons and maintained toward all of them unsurpassed goodwill and affection up to the end, even though she survived her husband for a considerable amount of time. Moreover, those in the court of Attalos in his absence protected her good reputation, granting to the mother [of his sons] the appropriate gratitude and honor. For taking their mother by both hands and leading her around in between them they visited both the shrines and the city along with their retinue. At this, the spectators accepted the young men and deemed them worthy, and, recalling the case of Kleobis and Biton,[2] they compared their choices, and complemented the splendor of their spiritedness with the distinction of the eminence of kings. These things were done in Kyzikos after the dissolution of the [peace] with king Prousias.
Greek Original:
Apollônias, Attalou, tou patros Eumenous tou basileôs, gametê: hêtis dêmotis ousa basilissa egegonei kai tautên diephulaxe tên huperochên mechri tês teleutaias hêmeras, ouch hetairikên prospheromenê pithanotêta, sôphronikên de kai politikên semnotêta kai kalokagathian. tettaras gar huious gennêsasa pros pantas toutous anuperblêton ephulaxen eunoian kai philostorgian mechri teleutês, kaitoi chronon ouk oligon huperbiôsasa tandros. plên hoige peri ton Attalon en têi parepidêmiai kalên periepoiêsanto phêmên, apodidontes têi mêtri tên kathêkousan charita kai timên. agontes gar ex amphoin toin cheroin mesên autôn tên mêtera parêiesan ta th' hiera kai tên polin meta tês therapeias. eph' hois hoi theômenoi megalôs tous neaniskous apedechonto kai katêxioun, kai mnêmoneuontes tôn peri Kleobin kai Bitôna sunekrinon tas haireseis autôn, kai to tês prothumias tês ekeinôn lampron tôi tês huperochês tôn basileôn axiômati sunanaplêrountes. tauta etelesthê en Kuzikôi meta tên dialusin tên pros Prousian ton basilea.
Notes:
An abridgement and paraphrase of the Polybian excerpt 22.20 (= EV 2, 186, 6-25). There the woman's name is given as Apollonis, but I detect nothing else that might spring from an alternative tradition. (Apollonis is the correct form: see Walbank 211.)
[1] i.e. Eumenes II of Pergamon, son of Attalos I and brother of Attalos II.
[2] Two brothers from Argos [Myth, Place], famous for devotion to their mother; their story is briefly told in kappa 2499.
Reference:
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, III (Oxford 1979)
Keywords: biography; chronology; daily life; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; historiography; history; religion; women
Translated by: William Hutton on 24 January 2002@16:33:07.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note; cosmetics) on 25 January 2002@04:08:36.
David Whitehead (expanded primary note) on 12 September 2004@11:15:06.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 3 April 2012@07:25:03.

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