Talk:Polemon (scholarch)

Polemon died when?
Can't help noticing that this entry claims that Polemon died in 273 BC, but was head of the Academy until 270/269 BC. I guess they just didn't want to let him go. :) --Singinglemon 16:08, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, the entry claims that Eusebius claims... ("According to Eusebius (Chron.) he died in 273 BC"). The inference I draw from this is that the consensus death year is 270/69, not Eusebius's 273.  You are making a good point, which is that the article should provide the source(s) for 270/69, & perhaps add some wording to avoid confusion about Eusebius' statement.  The point I perceive in the way Smith's Dictionary (which this is verbatim) puts it&mdash;"According to Eusebius (Chron.) he died in 273 BC. Diogenes also says that he died at a great age, and of natural decay"&mdash;is roughly, "This is a very obscure person, and we don't have the material for a detailed chronicle of his life.  Still, multiple sources, which seem to be computing from slightly different sets of evidence, agree in saying that he was scholarch for a long time, more than 45 years."  Wareh 17:58, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Further research shows that Smith has fibbed by splitting the difference between two possible dates. Depending on which MSS you're reading Eusebius in, he gives the date as 276/5 or 270/69 (the latter of which has won more support).  The most up-to-date discussion with bibliography I can find on the spot is in the first paragraph/page of this Rheinisches Museum article (upshot: despite the fact that many scholars have taken inadequate note of the fact that Philocrates' archonship is settled to be 276/275, Jacoby's choice of 270/69 for the death year remains most likely).  I'll fix the article, and thanks for the spur to do so.  Wareh 18:07, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Problem with dates
The page states that he was born in 314 which clearly conradicts the fact that he was pupil of Xenocrates and became head of the Academy after the latter's passing in 314. Ioiops (talk) 13:24, 24 December 2023 (UTC)