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Headword:
*pole/mwn
Adler number: pi,1887
Translated headword: Polemon, Polemo
Vetting Status: high
Translation: son of
Philostratus or Philocrates; Athenian, philosopher, pupil of
Xenocrates the successor of
Plato,[1] and himself head of the Academy.[2] He was extremely prodigal; then he took up philosophy. And he wrote many books, but nothing of him survives. He took pleasure in both
Homer and
Sophocles and used to say that each of them perhaps possessed some wisdom; this led him even to assert that
Homer [was] an epic
Sophocles,
Sophocles a tragic
Homer.[3]
*pole/mwn, *filostra/tou h)\ *filokra/tous, *)aqhnai=os, filo/sofos, maqhth\s *cenokra/tous tou= *pla/twnos diado/xou kai\ au)to\s h(ghsa/menos th=s *)akadhmi/as. e)gego/nei de\ sfo/dra a)/swtos: ei)=ta e)filoso/fhse. kai\ polla\ me\n sune/graye bibli/a, ou)de\n de\ au)tou= fe/retai. e)/xaire de\ *(omh/rw| te kai\ *sofoklei= kai\ i)/sws e)/xein e(ka/teron au)tw=n sofi/as e)/legen: w(/ste kai\ fa/skein *(/omhron me\n *sofokle/a e)piko/n, *sofokle/a de\ *(/omhron tragiko/n.
Notes:
C4/3 BCE; see generally OCD4 s.v. Polemon(2). The present material appears to draw on the opening chapters (4.16-20, esp. 16 and 20) of the ancient biography of him by
Diogenes Laertius, with minor additions.
[1] For Xenokrates see generally
xi 42,
xi 43.
[2] Between 314/3 and 270/69.
[3] cf.
kappa 2730.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 27 October 2003@03:53:03.
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