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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
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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
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As a spouse, Berenice chose Polemo, King of Cilicia.
Berenice. 2009
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Sometime later Berenice left Polemo and returned to her kingdom.
Berenice. 2009
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This match led Polemo to undertake circumcision and a Jewish lifestyle.
Berenice. 2009
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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.
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Let any one, with Polemo, take the world; or with the
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Xenocrates, hic eius auditor Polemo; cuius ipsa illa sessio fuit, quam videmus.
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Xenocrates, Polemo, and Crates, taking on successively more ethical and less speculative concerns.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOHN FISHER 1968
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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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