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DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20335421 PDFMarkdown

Testimony and Fragments by Polemon of Ilion (the Periegete)

The Testimony and Fragments of Polemon of Ilion gather what survives of the periegete, active in the early second century BCE; his life is placed about 220–160 BCE, and Delphi honoured him as proxenos in 177/6. Polemon wrote in prose on the monuments and dedications of Greek cities, among them the Athenian Acropolis, the treasuries at Delphi and the offerings at Sparta, and he was prized for copying inscriptions at first hand.

None of his works survives whole. The passages collected here are quotations and reports in later writers, above all Athenaeus, together with notices on his life. They preserve names of dedicators, objects, painters and local customs known from nowhere else, which makes them a source for the history of Greek sanctuaries and for Hellenistic antiquarian scholarship. He is a different man from Polemon of Laodicea, the sophist of the second century CE.

... Πολέμων Μιλησίου Ἰλιεύς.

... ὅτι οὐχ [ ]ˈ δη.[ Πολέμων] ˈ ἐν τῶι [. Περὶ ἀκροπό-]ˈ λεως δ[ ] ˈ ἀναγ[ ] ˈ τὸν Μελησίου [υἱόν, Στε]ˈφάνου δὲ τοῦ Κο̣[αλέμου] 〈καλου〉ˈμένου πατέρα ...

Ἐτυμολογικὸν τὸ Γνήσιον : «Μελιταῖα κυνίδια»· λέγεται ὅτι πλησίον Ἰταλίας νῆσός ἐστι Μελίτη, ἐξ ἧς ἐστι τὰ Μελιταῖα κυνίδια. Πολέμων δʼ ἐν Κτίσεσι Σικελίαν Μελίτης φησὶν εἶναι …

«ὦ Σάννʼ, ἐπειδὴ ῥῖνα θεόσυλιν φύεις, καὶ γαστρὸς οὐ κατακρατεῖς»· κύριον ὄνομα ὁ Σάννος, ὧι λοιδορεῖται. ὃ ἔνιοι πεποιῆσθαί φασιν παρὰ τὴν «σαννάδα», Κρῆτας δὲ τὰς ἀγρίας αἶγας λέγειν «σαννάδας», ὥς φησιν Πολέμων ἐν τοῖς Πρὸς Ἀντίγονον καὶ Ἀδαῖον· τὰς δὲ αἶγας ἐπίσταται σαννιοπλήκτους εἶναι καὶ ναιαδολήπτους καὶ ἐν τῶι βίωι τοὺς εὐήθεις ἐπιπεφημισμένους ...

Σχόλια εἰς Εὐριπίδην : «Κάστορί τε Πολυδεύκει τʼ ἐν αἰθέρος πτυχαῖς σύνθακος ἔσται, ναυτίλοις σωτηρίοις» ὅτι καὶ ἡ Ἑλένη τοῖς χειμαζομένοις κατὰ θάλασσαν ἐπήκοός ἐστι κατὰ Εὐριπίδην, σεσημείωται. ὁ μέντοι Σωσίβιος ἔμπαλιν οἴεται οὐκ εὐμενῶς αὐτὴν ἐπιφαίνεσθαι. Πολέμων δὲ ἐν τῶι δ τῶι Πρὸς Ἀναξανδρίδην τὴν μὲν τῶν δυοῖν ἀστέρων ἐπιφάνειαν τῶν Διοσκούρων ἀνωμολογῆσθαι, τὴν δὲ τῶν λεγομένων Ζοβείρων … ..