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[edit] 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—"According to Eusebius (Chron.) he died in 273 BC. Diogenes also says that he died at a great age, and of natural decay"—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)
