Posidonius of Apamea

135 BCE–51 BCE · Rome

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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ApameaSyria

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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).

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Influenced byPanaetius of RhodesPosidonius of Apamea