Posidonius of Apamea
c. 135 BCE–c. 51 BCE · Apamea
The most learned Stoic polymath (philosophy, science, history, geography); his synthesis shaped Cicero, Seneca, and the wider Greco-Roman intellectual world.
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What they did here
Born in Apamea on the Orontes in Syria c.135 BCE; his Syrian-Greek origin is well attested, hence the epithet 'the Apamean' (Strabo 16.2.10; Suda).
About Apamea
Apamea on the Orontes, in northwestern Syria near modern Qalaat al-Madiq, was a major Hellenistic city founded by the Seleucids. It was a significant philosophical center: the Stoic Posidonius and the Neopythagorean/Middle Platonist Numenius were both natives, and the Neoplatonist Iamblichus founded his influential school there in the early fourth century AD.
In the same place & time
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In the same tradition
Carneades, Polybius, Antipater Tarsensis, Hipparchus, Panaetius of Rhodes, Nepos, Cornelius, Cicero, Quintus Tullius Cicero, Julius Caesar, Lucretius, Sallust, Parthenius of Nicaea, Catullus, C. Valerius, Vitruvius, Virgil, Didymus Alexandrinus, Horace, Dionysius of Halicarnassus
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