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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Giuseppe Ucciardello and first published on 22/11/2004.

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Polemon is a grammarian whom Johannes Lydus¹, in the course of a geographical note, mentions as a commentator on Lucan’s² Pharsalia³: Lydus cites Polemon for the idea that the Epirotes were descended from the Syrians, which evidently appears…