person
Polemo of Athens
Polemo
also: Polemone
Head of the Old Academy after Xenocrates and teacher of Zeno of Citium; Cicero lists him among the Academics whose moral doctrine he approves.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §2.34 Polemo
Polemo of Athens (head of the Academy c. 314-270 BC), who taught that the end is to live according to nature. Cicero credits him, with Aristotle, as the source of the Old Academic and Peripatetic ethics.