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Julius Pollux
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<p>Julius Pollux was a <a href="/facts/Greeks/wXwd2xlb">Greek</a> scholar and rhetorician from <a href="/facts/Naucratis/3Htc4wTF">Naucratis</a>, <a href="/facts/Ancient_Egypt/BDsEGK4g">Ancient Egypt</a>. Emperor <a href="/facts/Commodus/5dlnQE7v">Commodus</a> appointed him a professor-chair of rhetoric in <a href="/facts/Athens/mBxlp8X1">Athens</a> at the <a href="/facts/Academy/Q1cenQyr">Academy</a> — on account of his melodious voice, according to <a href="/facts/Philostratus/EAYLowl1">Philostratus</a>' <i>Lives of the Sophists.</i> </p>