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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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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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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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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"Polyura posidonius". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Wikispecies has information related to Polyura posidonius. Polyura...
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Early world maps (section Posidonius (c. 135–51 BCE))
developments of Greek geography during this time, notably by Eratosthenes and Posidonius culminated in the Roman era, with Ptolemy's world map (2nd century CE)...
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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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