"Two larger questions seem to me to arise as background to any inquiry into the nature of Polemon’s place in the Platonic tradition. The first is what it means to be a Platonist at all; and the second is the extent to which the 2 Stoicism of Zeno of Kition and his successors can reasonably be viewed – in the way that it was viewed by Antiochus of Ascalon, for example -- as a sort of ‘correction’, or ‘tidying-up’, of the teachings of Polemon" from the speech
