Polemon (or Polemo) is the name of eminent ancient Greeks:
Philosophers
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Polemon (scholarch)
Polemon (, ''gen''.: Πολέμωνος; d. 270/269 BC) of Athens was an eminent Greek Platonist philosopher and Plato's third successor as scholarch (i.e., head of the Academy) from 314/313 to 270/269 BC. A pupil of Xenocrates, he believed t ...
, the head of the Platonic Academy from 314–269 BC
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Polemon of Athens
Polemon of Athens (, fl. 2nd century BC) was an ancient Greek Stoic philosopher and geographer. Of Athenian citizenship, he was most widely known as Polemon of Athens, but he was born either in Ilium, Samos, or Sicyon, and was also known as Polem ...
, a 2nd-century BC Stoic philosopher, also referred to as Polemon of Ilium
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Polemon of Laodicea
Marcus Antonius Polemon (; c. 90 – 144 AD) or Antonius Polemon, also known as Polemon of Smyrna or Polemon of Laodicea (), was a sophist who lived in the 2nd century.
His son Attalus and great-grandson Hermocrates of Phocaea were also notable ...
, a 2nd-century sophist
Macedonian officers
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Polemon (son of Andromenes) Polemon (; lived 4th century BC), son of Andromenes the Tymphaean, was a Macedonian officer in the service of Alexander the Great (336–323 BC). The great intimacy between him and Philotas caused him to be suspected in 330 BC, together with hi ...
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*Polemon (son of Megacles), , Macedonian of Pella, who was one of the officers appointed by Alexander the Great to command the garrison at Memphis in 331 BC
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Polemon (son of Theramenes)
Polemon (; lived 4th century BC), son of Theramenes, was a Macedonian officer. He was left by Alexander in the command of a fleet of thirty triremes which was destined to guard the mouths of the Nile and the sea-coast of Egypt in 331 BC.Quintus C ...
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Kings and other monarchs
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Polemon I of Pontus
Polemon I Pythodoros (; fl. 1st century BC – died 8 BC) was the Roman Client King of Cilicia, Pontus, Colchis and the Bosporan Kingdom. Polemon was the son and heir of Zenon and possibly Tryphaena. Zenon and Polemon adorned Laodicea with many ...
, king of Pontus from 36 BC to AD 8
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Polemon II of Pontus
Marcus Antonius Polemon Pythodoros, also known as Polemon II of Pontus and Polemon of Cilicia (; 12 BC/11 BC–74), was a prince of the Bosporan, Pontus, Cilicia, and Cappadocia. He served as a Roman client king of Pontus, Colchis, and Cilicia.
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, son to the above, king of Pontus from 38 to 64
Other
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''Polemon'' (snake), a genus of venomous snakes found in Africa
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Polemopolis, a Latin name of Sodankylä
See also
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Palaemon (disambiguation) Palaemon, Palaimon, Palemon () may refer to:
*Palaemon (mythology), several mythological persons
*Remmius Palaemon, the ancient Roman grammarian
*Teacher of Saint Pachomius
* ''Palaemon'' (crustacean), a genus of shrimps
*Palemon Howard Dorsett (18 ...
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