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| | Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 434 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Of Athens by citizenship, but by birth either of Ilium, or Samos, or Sicyon, a Stoic philosopher and an eminent geographer, surnamed 6 irepi-777771-975, was the son of Euegetes, and a contemporary of Aristophanes of Byzantium, in the time of Ptolemy Epiphanes, at the beginning of the second century b.c. |
 | | The only extant work of Polemon is the funeral orations for Cynaegeirus and Callimachus, the generals who fell at Marathon, which are supposed to be pronounced by their fathers, each extolling his own son above the other. |
 | | Philostratus mentions several others of his rhetorical compositions, the subjects of which are chiefly taken from Athenian history, and an oration which he pronounced, by command of Hadrian, at the dedication of the temple of Zeus Olympius at Athens, in a. |
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