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Posidonius met Pompey when he was Rhodes's ambassador in Rome and Pompey visited him in Rhodes twice, once in 66 BC during his campaign against the pirates and again in 62 BC during his eastern campaigns, and asked Posidonius to write his biography. As a gesture of respect and great honor, Pompey lowered his fasces before Posidonius's door.
Posidonius is a lunar impact crater that is located on the north-eastern edge of Mare Serenitatis, to the south of Lacus Somniorum. It was named after ancient Greek philosopher and geographer Posidonius of Apamea. [ 1 ]
Posidonius (of Apamea) (c. 135–51 BC) A philosopher, astronomer, and geographer Crinis (fl. uncertain) Stoic who wrote about logic: Proclus of Mallus (fl. uncertain) Stoic philosopher and writer Diodotus the Stoic (c. 130–59 BC) Stoic teacher of Cicero who lived in Cicero's house Geminus of Rhodes (c. 110–c. 40 BC) Astronomer and ...
Posidonius or Poseidonios may refer to: Poseidonios the Macedonian (3rd century BC?), a siege engineer mentioned by Biton of Pergamon Posidonius (1st century BC), Stoic polymath
The account is usually attributed to Posidonius who travelled in Transalpine Gaul, where some decades earlier the Cimbri had migrated until they were annihilated by the consul Marius at Vercellae in 101 BC. Posidonius did not travel as a politician nor a general, but as an ethnographer, and so he would not have been biassed against the Cimbri.
Posidonius (Catalan: Possedoni) was the bishop of Urgell in northern Spain between 814 and 823. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He may have become bishop as early 803, the last year when Archbishop Leidrad was still clearly in control of the diocese following the ouster of Bishop Felix for heresy.
Galen claims Posidonius allowed for an irrational part of the soul. [25] It is possible Posidonius did hold this position although it would have been at variance with mainstream Stoic thought, not just that of Chrysippus. [100] Cicero, who had personally known Posidonius, shows no awareness of a disagreement between Posidonius and Chrysippus. [101]
A 1628 reconstruction of Posidonius' ideas about the positions of continents (many details could not have been known by Posidonius) Posidonius (or Poseidonius) of Apameia (c. 135–51 BCE) was a Greek Stoic philosopher [ 10 ] who traveled throughout the Roman world and beyond and was a celebrated polymath throughout the Greco-Roman world, like ...