“Marcus Antonius Polemo, Philosoph, geboren um 95 (Religion: pag.), gestorben nach 150. Sophist in Laodikeia, Sohn von Marcus Antonius Polemo.
Kind: 1. Marcus Antonius Attalus, geboren um 125”2;
“The most famous member of the ‘Polemo dynasty’ was the rhetorician Marcus Antonius Polemo (A.D. 88-144), whose dual residencies in Laodikeia and Smyrna kept him embroiled in the politics and intellectual life of both cities. His lineage was of the noblest; his abilities in speech-making excited the wonder and admiration of the Roman imperial literature known as the Second Sophistic. In The Lives of the Sophists by Lucius Flavius Philostratus (A.D. 180-c. 250) Polemo’s rage at the intrusion of Antoninus Pius (then governor of Roman Asia), who took over Polemo’s luxurious house in Smyrna (Izmir) is told: Polemo ordered the future emperor to leave—at midnight (Philostratus, Lives, 25. 534). After Antoninus Pius became emperor, he invited Polemos to Rome. The Emperor as if to remind the past event to Polemos told those with him: “Find Polemos a place he can’t be thrown out of.” The sophist spent huge sums for ostentatious display, and often was seen riding in a chariot with silver bridles. In rhetoric, Polemo’s learning attracted the friendship of emperor Trajan (A.D. 98-117), who granted the sophist the privelege of free travel wherever he wished, and Hadrian (ruled A.D. 117-138) extended the priveleges to Polemo’s posterity. An Arabic text shows that Polemo travelled with Hadrian in A.D. 123 in Thrace, Lydia, Phrygia, Rhodes, and Athens, along with Aegean islands (Georg Hoffmann, ed. [Arabic] and trans. [Latin], Polemonis De physiognonia in R. Foerster, ed., Scriptores physiognomici Graeci et Latini [Leipzig, 1893; rptd. Stuttgart, 1994; 2 vols.] vol. I, pp. 95-294). (Q.: Laodikeia History {türkische Internetseite} http://www.pau.edu.tr/laodikeia/english/history.htm)3