Polemon of Laodicea

thumb| Marcus Antonius Polemon (Greek: Μάρκος Ἀντώνιος Πολέμων; c. 90 – 144 AD) was an Anatolian Greek sophist who lived in the 2nd century. Quotes The pure Greek is of medium stature, between tall and short, broad and weak. He is of erect posture, beautiful in face and appearance, white in colour, mixed with red, medium in flesh, with medium palms and elbows, alert, quick to learn, neither small nor large of head, in his neck thickness and strength. His hair is soft and red, with some curliness and some waviness on account of its lankness. In his face there is squareness, in his lip slimness, and his nose is pointed and evenly proportioned. His eyes are moist, bluish-black, very mobile, and very luminous. This is the description of the pure Greek. From the 14th-century Arabic translation of the otherwise lost Physiognomy, ch. 35. Simon Swain, ed., Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam (Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 427 External links Category:Philosophers from Greece Category:Authors from Greece