Eupolemus
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Against Timarchus
A gymnastic trainer, brother of Arizelus and Arignotus, uncle of Timarchus, who died before the family estate was divided.
There were three brothers in this family, Eupolemus, the gymnastic trainer, Arizelus,the father of the defendant, and Arignotus, who is still living, an old man now, and blind.
Stromata
Author cited both for a chronological reckoning from Adam and for the claim that Moses was the first wise man and grammarian.
And Eupolemus, in his work On the Kings in Judaea, says that Moses was the first wise man, and the first to hand down grammar to the Jews, and that the Phoenicians received it from the Jews, and the Greeks from the Phoenicians.
And further, Eupolemus, in a similar work, says that the whole of the years from Adam to the fifth year of the reign of Demetrius, when Ptolemy was reigning the twelfth year over Egypt, come together to five thousand one hundred and forty-nine years.
Against Macartatus
Friend added by Theopompus, Glaucon, and Glaucus to their alleged agreement over the estate.
and they added to themselves as a fourth another of their friends (Eupolemus was his name).