[2][3] The dissociation from the ethnic to the polis coincided with Philip V of Macedon's conquest of a number of cities in Illyria.

[2] In the Hellenistic period there is evidence for the polis status of Olympe, and Stephanus of Byzantium (fl.

6th century AD) recorded Olympe as a "polis of Illyria" (πόλις Ίλλυρίας).

During the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC Olympe minted bronze coins bearing the inscription ΟΛΥΜΠΑΣΤΑΝ (OLYMPASTAN), and the city-ethnic was probably ’Ολυμπαστάς (Olympastas).

[4] A late 3rd century BC dedication to Zeus Megistos mentions a politarches, a grammateus and the synarchontes.