At Pollina, the ancient Apollonia, are the remnants of a Doric temple, of which a single column is still standing.
This idea of the air as the original principle and source of life and intelligence is much more clearly expressed by a later writer, Diogenes of Apollonia.
Under the Empire, however, it was overshadowed by the development of Dyrrachium and Apollonia.
In Roman times it was less important than Brundusium as a point of embarkation for the East, though the distance to Apollonia was less than from Brundusium.
North of this and immediately on the borders of Phrygia stood Apollonia, called also Mordiaeum.