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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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.
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Graeco-Roman world
- Nicander of Colophon· 185 BCE–130 BCE
- Theodosius of Bithynia· 160 BCE–100 BCE
- Philodemus· 110 BCE–37 BCE
- Julius Caesar· 100 BCE–44 BCE
- Tryphon I Grammaticus· 95 BCE–25 BCE
- Diodorus Siculus· 90 BCE–30 BCE
- Philoxenus of Alexandria· 85 BCE–25 BCE
- Aenesidemus· 80 BCE–10 BCE
- Strabo· 64 BCE–24 CE
- Augustus· 63 BCE–14 CE
- Livy· 59 BCE–17 CE
- Seneca the Elder· 54 BCE–39 CE
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