Potamon of Mytilene
Potamon (Greek: Ποτάμων) (around 65 BC–around AD 25)[1] was a rhetorician in the Greek city of Mytilene who was active around the same time of . When his son was killed, according to Seneca the Elder, he delivered a speech on the suasoria relating to the Spartans deliberating whether to flee Thermopylae wherein he exhorted the Spartans against flight, in contrast to his rival Lesbocles,[1] who shut down his school of rhetoric after the death of his son.[2] His city sent him on embassies to Rome in 45 and 25 BC.[1]
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- Rhetoricians
- Mytilene
- Ancient Greeks
- Ancient Mytileneans
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