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  • Gynaikes ston Atychi Polemo tou 1897 (Women in the unfortunate war of 1897).

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • According to the historian Josephus, a Jewish insider at the courts of Vespasian and Titus, the incest rumors shamed Berenice into moving out of the palace in 65, at the age of thirty-seven, and embarking on her third marriage with Polemo, the king of Cilicia, who even agreed to be circumcised and convert to her faith.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • As a spouse, Berenice chose Polemo, King of Cilicia.

    Berenice. 2009

  • Sometime later Berenice left Polemo and returned to her kingdom.

    Berenice. 2009

  • This match led Polemo to undertake circumcision and a Jewish lifestyle.

    Berenice. 2009

  • Based in Aristotelian physiognomical inference (Prior Analytics II 27, 70b 7 – 4 and the Ps-Aristotelian third century b.c. e. treatise Physiognomy) was rooted in many disciplines, such as medicine (Galen), rhetorics (Polemo), and ethics.

    Gender Identity In Halakhic Discourse. 2009

  • Let any one, with Polemo, take the world; or with the

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • Xenocrates, hic eius auditor Polemo; cuius ipsa illa sessio fuit, quam videmus.

    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 2004

  • Xenocrates, Polemo, and Crates, taking on successively more ethical and less speculative concerns.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOHN FISHER 1968

  • And Polemo, when a man reviled him who was fond of precious stones and quite crazy for costly seal-rings, made no answer, but bestowed all his attention on one of his seal-rings, and eyed it closely; and he being delighted said, "Do not look at it so, Polemo, but in the light of the sun, and it will appear to you more beautiful."

    Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

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