Resumen de Polemone di Ilio e la sua opera Πρoς Τiμαιον
All the fragments of the Pro;~ Tivmaion by Polemon of Ilion concern scholarly issues. Since none of them contains evidence of direct polemic, it is unclear whether the work addressed to Timaeus had a polemical nature or was instead a more general reply to the historian of Tauromenium. In all likelihood Polemon’s work included both views that conflicted with those of Timaeus and additional information. If there was indeed a contrast between the two, it very probably concerned literary subjects and scholarly details rather than issues of historical interpretation. Other writings ascribable to the perieget of Ilion are polemical and the possibility that the Pro;~ Tivmaion is an ajntigrafhv cannot be completely ruled out.
