Definitions for "Polemon"
Polemon (in Greek Πoλεμων; lived 4th century BC), son of Andromenes the Stymphaean, was a Macedonian officer in the service of Alexander the Great (336–323 BC). The great intimacy which subsisted between him and Philotas caused him to be suspected in 330 BC, together with his brothers Amyntas, Attalus, and Simmias, of participating in the treasonable designs imputed to Philotas: a charge to which Polemon had the imprudence to give countenance by taking to flight immediately on learning the arrest of Philotas. Amyntas, however, who remained, having successfully defended himself before the assembly of the army, obtained the pardon or acquittal of Polemon also.
Polemon of Cilicia was king, first of the Pontus and the Bosporan kingdom, then of the Pontus and Cilicia, and lastly of Cilicia alone; he died in 74 C.E. Together with other neighboring kings and princes, Polemon once visited Herod Agrippa I in Tiberias (Josephus, Jewish Antiquities xix. 8, § 1). The Herodian princess Berenice of Cilicia, of whom it was reported that she held forbidden relations with her brother, chose Polemon for a husband, in order to mend her reputation.