Polemon
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
father of Hagnias · son of Hagnias
in the texts
Against Macartatus
Son of the elder Hagnias, father of the later Hagnias, and brother of Phylomache, whose sibling relationship is disputed.
The deponents testify that they are fellow-demesmen of Philagrus, the father of Eubulides, and Polemon, the father of Hagnias, and that they know that Phylomachê, the mother of Eubulides, was considered to be the sister of Polemon, the father of Hagnias, by the same father and the same mother, and that they never heard from anyone that Polemon, the son of Hagnias, had a brother.
The deponents testify that Oenanthê, the mother of their grandfather Stratonides, was first cousin to Polemon, the father of Hagnias, their fathers having been brothers, and that they heard from their own father that Polemon, the father of Hagnias, never had any brother, but had a sister, born of the same father and the same mother, namely Phylomachê, the mother of Eubulides, the father of Phyloma …
To Hagnias was born a son, Polemon, and a daughter, Phylomachê, sister of Polemon by the same father and the same mother;
Stromata
Academic philosopher.
Xenocrates, treating the subject specially in his work On Nourishment from Animals, and Polemon in his treatises On Life according to Nature, seem clearly to say that nourishment through flesh is unprofitable, since, being already worked over, it assimilates to the souls of the irrational creatures.