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Polemarchus

Πολέμαρχος

(Πολέμαρχος).

1. The pupil of the celebrated astronomer Eudoxus, whose instructions he received in Cyzicus, his native place, and the teacher of the more celebrated Calippus, who accompanied him to Athens (Simplicius, de Caeloo, ii. p. 120a.). He lived about the middle of the fourth century B. C.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.