attended a course of Posidonius' lectures, and later invited Posidonius to write a monograph on Cicero's own consulship (Posidonius politely refused). In...

geographer Posidonius of Apamea. The crater Chacornac is attached to the southeast rim, and to the north is Daniell. The rim of Posidonius is shallow...

ratio". Posidonius calculated the Earth's circumference by reference to the position of the star Canopus. As explained by Cleomedes, Posidonius observed...

Posidonius or Poseidonios may refer to: Poseidonios the Macedonian (3rd century BC?), a siege engineer mentioned by Biton of Pergamon Posidonius (1st century...

"​Polyura posidonius​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Wikispecies has information related to Polyura posidonius. Polyura...

modern usage is that of the Roman era used by Roman-era authors such as Posidonius, Strabo, and Ptolemy, who took the Tanais (the modern Don River) as the...

Well known eclectics in Greek philosophy were the Stoics Panaetius and Posidonius, and the New Academics Carneades and Philo of Larissa. Among the Romans...

BC), which modern scholarship has linked to an earlier Greek writer, Posidonius. There is some archaeological evidence of human sacrifice among Celtic...

privilege issued to Posidonius by the Emperor Louis in 835 or 836 is a later forgery. The last authentic reference to Posidonius as bishop is a confirmation...

developments of Greek geography during this time, notably by Eratosthenes and Posidonius culminated in the Roman era, with Ptolemy's world map (2nd century CE)...

fragm. 47a. I. G. Kidd (ed.), Posidonius: The commentary, Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-521-60443-7, Posidonius (1989). p. 738. Cambridge University...

shadows cast by objects at two remote locations. In the 1st century BC, Posidonius confirmed Eratosthenes's results by comparing stellar observations at...

reconstruction of the world map of Anaximander (610–546 BC) World map according to Posidonius (150–130 BC), drawn in 1628 Ideal reconstruction of medieval T-and-O maps...

Empiricus more... Stoic Zeno of Citium Cleanthes Chrysippus Panaetius Posidonius Seneca Lucius Annaeus Cornutus Musonius Rufus Epictetus Arrian Marcus...

Cleomedes Geminus Hephaestio Macrobius Martianus Capella Menelaus Porphyry Posidonius Proclus Ptolemy Sosigenes of Alexandria Sosigenes the Peripatetic Strabo...

which would be consistent with the idea that he may have been a pupil of Posidonius, but a date as late as 50 AD has also been suggested. The crater Geminus...

irregular lunar impact crater attached to the southeast rim of the crater Posidonius. It lies just to the east of the Mare Serenitatis, and north of the crater...

Zeno's founding to Antipater; the Middle Stoa, including Panaetius and Posidonius; and the Late Stoa, including Musonius Rufus, Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus...

Empiricus more... Stoic Zeno of Citium Cleanthes Chrysippus Panaetius Posidonius Seneca Lucius Annaeus Cornutus Musonius Rufus Epictetus Arrian Marcus...

the gold-yielding rivers mentioned by Posidonius. This interpretation is now generally discarded, as Posidonius' narrative makes it more likely that the...

Philinus of Agrigentum Philochorus Philostephanus Phylarchus Polybius Posidonius Satyrus the Peripatetic Sosicrates Theopompus Timaeus (historian) Gaius...

modern uncertainty over which stadion length they meant. Around 100 BC, Posidonius of Apamea recomputed Earth's radius, and found it to be close to that...

has shown that this view of Posidonius' criticism of Chrysippus was mainly due to Galen's (our main witness for Posidonius' and Chrysippus' now lost works)...

Daniel, and in the Book of Ruth. Josephus and Strabo (the latter citing Posidonius) both stated that the "Syrians" called themselves "Arameans". The Septuagint...

Empiricus more... Stoic Zeno of Citium Cleanthes Chrysippus Panaetius Posidonius Seneca Lucius Annaeus Cornutus Musonius Rufus Epictetus Arrian Marcus...

planetary mechanical models. According to him, the Greek polymaths Thales and Posidonius both constructed a device modeling celestial motion. In 1348, Giovanni...

stadia, since Posidonius' final circumference was 180,000 stadia, which equals 48 × 3750 stadia. The 180,000 stadia circumference of Posidonius is close to...

Stoic philosopher Posidonius (1st-century BCE) who wrote his own On Passions as a commentary on Chrysippus. Galen claims Posidonius accepted an irrational...

Empiricus more... Stoic Zeno of Citium Cleanthes Chrysippus Panaetius Posidonius Seneca Lucius Annaeus Cornutus Musonius Rufus Epictetus Arrian Marcus...

in the 3rd century BC connected the Hyperboreans to the Massagetae and Posidonius in the 1st century BC to the Western Celts, but Pomponius Mela placed...