Polemon ( grc, Πολέμων; lived 4th century BC), son of Theramenes, was a Macedonian officer. He was left by Alexander in the command of a fleet of thirty

trireme A trireme( ; derived from Latin: ''trirēmis'' "with three banks of oars"; cf. Greek ''triērēs'', literally "three-rower") was an ancient vessel and a type of galley that was used by the ancient maritime civilizations of the Mediterranean S ...

s which was destined to guard the mouths of the Nile and the sea-coast of Egypt in 331 BC.

Quintus Curtius Rufus Quintus Curtius Rufus () was a Roman historian, probably of the 1st century, author of his only known and only surviving work, ''Historiae Alexandri Magni'', "Histories of Alexander the Great", or more fully ''Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedon ...

, ''Historiae Alexandri Magni'
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.'' 3. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1867. Ancient Macedonian generals Generals of Alexander the Great 4th-century BC people {{AncientGreece-bio-stub