Posidonius (Greek: Ποσειδώνιος Poseidonios meaning of Poseidon) of Apameia (ὁ Ἀπαμεύς) or of Rhodes (ὁ Ῥόδιος) (ca. 135 BCE – 51 BCE) was a Greek Stoic philosopher politician astronomer geographer historian and teacher native to Apamea Syria.He was acclaimed as the greatest polymath of his age. His vast body of work exists today only in fragments.
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birth place
Apamea Syria
death place
Rome, Rhodes
era
Ancient philosophy
influenced
Cicero, Livy, Plutarch, Cleomedes, Strabo, Jason of Nysa, Diodorus Siculus, Seneca the Younger
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