Polemo
historical figure · 6 works · 14 mentions · 19 anchored passages
Polemo, the pupil of Xenocrates · Polemonian view · his hearer Polemo · this Polemo
in the texts
On Moral Ends
Academic philosopher who held that the first things according to nature, combined with virtue, are the end of goods
To Polemo, and to Aristotle before him, those things seemed the first which I named a little before.
and three in which the honourable comes with some addition — those of Polemo, of Callipho, of Diodorus;
For when the earlier men — of whom most plainly Polemo — had said that the highest good is to live according to nature, the Stoics say that three things are signified by these words:
Tusculan Disputations
Head of the Academy, cited among the ancients discussing virtue and happiness.
I do not, then, readily grant either to my Brutus, or to our common masters, or to those ancients, Aristotle, Speusippus, Xenocrates, Polemo, that, since they count among evils the things which I enumerated above, they should also say the wise man is always happy.
There will follow, then, by the reasoning of these men, the happy life along with virtue even to punishment, and with it will go down into the bull, on the authority of Aristotle, Xenocrates, Speusippus, Polemo, nor will it, corrupted by threats or blandishments, desert it.
Or did Plato surpass Xenocrates, or Polemo Arcesilaus, in being happier?
Lucullus
Head of the Platonic Academy, named as one of the great absent authorities in the dispute.
'There answers me not Aristotle or Theophrastus, not even Xenocrates or Polemo, but these lesser men, that a truth is of such a kind as a falsehood could not be.
if the Polemonian view is right, the Stoic errs, assenting to a false thing (and you yourselves say that nothing is so alien to the wise man);
But to live honourably, enjoying those things which nature first reconciles to man, the Old Academy too judged, as the writings of Polemo show, whom Antiochus most approves, and Aristotle and his friends seem to come very near to this.
Stromata
Head of the Academy, teacher of Crates and Crantor.
Hearers of Polemo were Crates and Crantor, in whom the Old Academy from Plato came to an end.
For Polemo, the pupil of Xenocrates, plainly wishes happiness to be self-sufficiency in all goods, or in the most and greatest.
Letters
A presbyter at Myra.
and at Myra the presbyters Tatianus and Polemo and Macarius;
Academica
Head of the Academy who taught both Zeno and Arcesilas.
But Speusippus and Xenocrates, who were the first to take up Plato's method and authority, and after them Polemo and Crates, and together with them Crantor, gathered in the Academy, diligently maintained what they had received from their predecessors.