attended a course of Posidonius' lectures, and later invited Posidonius to write a monograph on Cicero's own consulship (Posidonius politely refused). In...
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geographer Posidonius of Apamea. The crater Chacornac is attached to the southeast rim, and to the north is Daniell. The rim of Posidonius is shallow...
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Earth's circumference (section Posidonius)
ratio". Posidonius calculated the Earth's circumference by reference to the position of the star Canopus. As explained by Cleomedes, Posidonius observed...
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Posidonius or Poseidonios may refer to: Poseidonios the Macedonian (3rd century BC?), a siege engineer mentioned by Biton of Pergamon Posidonius (1st century...
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modern usage is that of the Roman era used by Roman-era authors such as Posidonius, Strabo, and Ptolemy, who took the Tanais (the modern Don River) as the...
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"Polyura posidonius". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Wikispecies has information related to Polyura posidonius. Polyura...
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privilege issued to Posidonius by the Emperor Louis in 835 or 836 is a later forgery. The last authentic reference to Posidonius as bishop is a confirmation...
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fragm. 47a. I. G. Kidd (ed.), Posidonius: The commentary, Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-521-60443-7, Posidonius (1989). p. 738. Cambridge University...
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Well known eclectics in Greek philosophy were the Stoics Panaetius and Posidonius, and the New Academics Carneades and Philo of Larissa. Among the Romans...
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BC), which modern scholarship has linked to an earlier Greek writer, Posidonius. There is some archaeological evidence of human sacrifice among Celtic...
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