Orion Posidonius "posidonius, the Stoic philosopher and polymath of Apamea and rhodes, one of the most dominant intellectual figures in the first half of the first century BC, had in general an astonishingly encyclopedic range of interests and writings. http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/orion/archives/1998a/msg00383.html
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POSIDONIUS De Rhodes Translate this page posidonius de rhodes 135 51 av JC. posidonius de rhodes est aussiconnu sous le nom de posidonius dApameia en Syrie. Apameia http://coll-ferry-montlucon.pays-allier.com/posidoni.htm
Extractions: Posidonius effectua de nombreux voyages en Méditerranée occidentale et il en profita pour parfaire ses connaissances dans des domaines aussi variés que lAstronomie, la Météorologie, la Géographie et la Géologie. Aux alentours de lannée 100 avant J.C. il assura la direction de lécole stoïcienne de Rhodes. Conjointement à cette charge, il joua un rôle politique important dans lîle. Cest ainsi quen 87-86 avant J.C. il se retrouva nommé ambassadeur de Rhodes à Rome. Pendant son séjour dans la Cité Eternelle, il retrouva Cicéron qui avait été un de ses élèves. Il y rencontra aussi le général Gaius Marius ainsi que Pompée qui sintéressait tout particulièrement à la tradition grecque. Dailleurs Pompée maintiendra ses relations avec lui et lui rendra souvent visite à Rhodes.
List_scient Translate this page Philolaos de Crotone. Philon de Byzance. Platon d'Athènes. posidonius de rhodes.Pythagore de Samos. Pythéas de Massalia. Sosigène d'Alexandrie. Speusippe de ***. http://coll-ferry-montlucon.pays-allier.com/l_scient.htm
Geminus of rhodes such as Mt Atabyrius without further comment. Geminus was a Stoic philosopher and either a pupil, or perhaps a later follower, of posidonius. http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Geminus.html
Extractions: It may be surprising that Geminus 's name seems to be Latin rather than Greek but as Heath writes [3]:- The occurrence of a Latin name in a centre of Greek culture need not surprise us, since Romans settled in such centres in large numbers during the last century BC. Geminus, however, in spite of his name, was thoroughly Greek. Geminus is believed by many historians to have worked in Rhodes. Certainly his astronomy text uses mountains on Rhodes to make specific points but, as Dicks points out in [1], this is not proof that he worked there. For example, Geminus refers to Mt Atabyrius (today called Mt Attaviros) without giving any indication of where it is but when he refers to Mt Cyllene he is careful to indicate that it is the Peloponnesus. However, since Rhodes was at this time the centre for astronomical research, and was taken as the reference point for latitude in astronomical observations, it is quite possible that Geminus would assume his reader were familiar with the reference points of Rhodes such as Mt Atabyrius without further comment. Geminus was a Stoic philosopher and either a pupil, or perhaps a later follower, of
Slde #114 Monograph Then posidonius (according to Cleomedes), noting that Canopus was seen just onthe horizon at rhodes but rose as far as a quarter of a zodiacal sign (7.5 http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/AncientWebPages/114mono.html
Extractions: DESCRIPTION: This slide shows a 1630 reconstruction by Petrus Bertius (Pieter Bert) of the world view of the Greek philosopher Posidonius who proposed that the earth was sling-shaped, broad in the middle, with tapered ends and an estimated circumference that was three-quarters of its true size, resulting in an oikumene [inhabited world] that stretched half way around a globe. The Bertius reconstruction, published in his Ancient Geography (Paris, 1630), represents a literal interpretation of Posidonius' "sling", complete with looped handles. The better-known contemporary of Theodosius, Posidonius(ca. 135-51/50 B.C.),is generally associated with his measurement of the circumference of the earth. By some scholars, who view the history of mapping as mainly concerned with the diagnosis of increasing accuracy, this measurement has been "deemed disastrous in the history of geography." Depending on the value of the stade that is adopted, it may be true that Posidonius, seeking to improve on Eratosthenes, underestimated the size of the earth, and this measurement, copied by Ptolemy, was thereafter transmitted to Renaissance Europe. But Posidonius clearly did more than measure the earth: such was his reputation as an educator that Strabo described him as "one of the most learned philosophers in our time." He was born in Apamea in Syria; after traveling widely in the western Mediterranean countries and visiting Rome on several occasions, he established himself in Rhodes, where he opened a school. This was patronized by distinguished visitors, including Pompey, the Roman general and statesman, and Cicero, from whom some of our knowledge of Posidonius derives. It was also at Rhodes that he constructed a planetarium in the style of Archimedes, intended for teaching students the laws of the cosmos. Cicero describes "the orrery recently constructed by our friend Posidonius, which at each revolution reproduces the same motions of the sun, the moon and the five planets that take place in the heavens every twenty-four hours."
Slide #115 Monograph Although Pythæs, Eratosthenes, and perhaps posidonius had fixed its northern limiton celestial arctic circle constructed for the latitude of rhodes (36° N http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/AncientWebPages/115mono.html
Extractions: DESCRIPTION: This slide shows a 19th century reconstruction of the world view of the Greek philosopher Strabo who wrote his famous geography at the beginning of the Christian era and compiled his map from travelers' reports and the "writings" of ancients. The now lost map by Strabo represented the sum total of cartographic knowledge before the Christian Era. The contribution of Strabo as a scholar of great stature as philosopher, historian, and geographer, epitomizes the continuing importance of the Greek intellectual heritage - and contemporary practice - to the development of cartography in the early Roman world. As the reviser of Eratosthenes, he also illustrates the continuous way later generations had built on the cartographic concepts first clearly set out in the Hellenistic Age We are fortunate in possessing all seventeen books of the Geographia by Strabo, written in good Greek although he himself was mixed Asiatic and Greek stock; it is through his writings that most of our knowledge of Eratosthenes' mapping has come down. He was born at Amasia [Amasya] in Pontus in 64 or 63 B.C. Strabo was educated at Nysa near Tralles in Caria and in 44 B.C. went to Rome, where he studied under the Phoenician freedman Tyrannio and the Stoic philosopher Athenodorus. He showed himself a keen supporter of Augustus and visited Rome several times. From about 25 to 20 B.C. he was in Egypt, based at Alexandria. His Geographia
TMTh:: POSIDONIUS OF SYRIA The posidonius Equator posidonius fixed as the Equator of the earth the parallelpassing through rhodes, and calculated its length at 180,000 stades (32,400 http://www.tmth.edu.gr/en/aet/7/82.html
Extractions: An eclectic, widely read and systematic scholar, Posidonius has been compared by many historians to Democritus and Aristotle. He travelled extensively, and used his voyages to make a systematic study of the geography of numerous countries in both the East and the West. He travelled to North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands, to the shores of the Atlantic, to Britain and Germany, to the lands bordering the Adriatic, to Sicily and Sardinia, and to France, particularly the area around Massalia.
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Theosophy Library Online - Great Teacher Series - POSIDONIUS OF APAMEA scientists went into exile at rhodes, where a famous school of rhetoric flourished.The cosmopolitan atmosphere of the area appealed to posidonius, who found http://theosophy.org/tlodocs/teachers/PosidoniusOfApamea.htm
Extractions: There are never any occasions when you need think yourself safe because you wield the weapons of Fortune: fight with your own. Fortune does not furnish arms against herself and so men equipped against their foes are unarmed against Fortune herself. Seneca, Epistle 113 POSIDONIUS After Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, Athens gradually ceased to be the philosophical centre of the Mediterranean world. Her importance as a city of learning remained for centuries, but the diffusion of culture, the rise of Alexandria and the growth of Roman power overshadowed the political and economic importance of the polis When the Athenians sent a deputation to Rome to seek relief from a fine imposed upon them, the Stoic Diogenes of Seleucia was a member, along with a Peripatetic and a Sceptic. Cato disliked all of them because their philosophical attitudes tended to diminish the importance of military virtue. Nonetheless, the seeds of Stoic thought were sown in Rome and found fertile ground there. Panaetius of Rhodes, a wealthy man who had studied at the grand library at Pergamum under its head, Crates the Stoic, became a student of Diogenes in Athens. Within a decade of the deputation, Panaetius journeyed to the political centre of the empire. He met and became fast friends with Scipio the Younger, and soon scholars and intellectuals formed a circle around them. Panaetius remained in Rome until the death of Scipio, then he returned to Athens and assumed leadership of the Stoic school.
ATHENRY life. He taught the young Octavian (afterwards so igustus) at Apollonia,and was a pupil of posidonius at rhodes. H; ibsequently http://24.1911encyclopedia.org/A/AT/ATHENRY.htm
Extractions: Justin, but hardy the works ot Aristicies or Tatian. tlis Ir( eology is strongly tinged with Platonism, and this may account si his falling into desuetude. His discussion of the Trinity has roe points of speculative interest, but it is not sufficiently th rked out; he regards the Son as the Reason or Wisdom of the an ~ther, and the Spirit as a divine effluence. On some other pr ints, as the nature of matter, the immortality of the soul and th e principle of sin, his views are interesting. co EDITI0Ns.J. C. Th. Eg. de Otto, Corpus Apol. Christ. Saec. II. su I. vii. (Jena, 1857); E. Schwartz in Texte find Unlersuchungen, et 2 (Leipzig, I89I). TRANsLATI0Ns.Humphreys (London, 1714); B. P. Pratten th nie-Nic. Fathers, Edinburgh, 1867). of LITERATTJRE.A. Harnack, Gesch. der altchr. Lilt. pp. 526-558, and altar works by 0. Bardenhewer and A. Ehrhard; Herzog-Hauck, alencyk.; G. Kruger, Early Chr. Lit. p. 130 (where additional frature is cited). In 5S9 and 1612 appeared in French a work True and Perfect Love, purporting to he a translation from the t
Rational Good Life Antipater of Tarsus Panaetius of rhodes Introduced stoicism to Rome, mixedPlato's psychological views into stoicism. Teacher of posidonius. http://www.myspot.org/stoic/stoics.html
Extractions: Stoicism The Stoics Criticism Primary Sources ... Links The Stoic Hearth of the Rational Good Life The Stoics: Zeno of Citium Cleanthes of Assos Chrysippus of Soli Diogenes of Babylon Antipater of Tarsus Panaetius of Rhodes Posidonius of Apamea Seneca the Younger Gaius Musonius Rufus ... Epictetus Hierocles Marcus Aurelius Justus Lipsius Guillaume Du Vair Zeno of Citium (336-224 BC): Born in Citium, Cypress (a then Greek colony). A student of Crates the Cynic. He was the son of a merchant and a merchant himself until the age of 42, when he started a philosophical school. Named for his teaching platform the stoa (gk for porch), his teachings were the beginning of Stoicism. None of Zeno's works have survived. Cleanthes of Assos (331-232 BC): A disciple of Zeno who later went on to head the Stoic school. An under educated ex-wrestler, he worked labor jobs at night to free his days to attend Zeno's philosophical discussions. While initially slow to grasp the concepts, his determination eventually made him Zeno's successor. Chrysippus of Soli (279-207 BC): Cleanthes pupil and eventual successor to the head of the stoic philosophy. A prolific writer and debater, Chrysippus would often take both sides of an argument. Of his over 700 written works, none survive, save a few fragments embedded in the works of later authors.
Posidonius He settled in rhodes after extensive travels. Noted for his learning, Posidoniusgave new life to Stoicism by fortifying it with contemporary learning. http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0839862.html
History Of Mathematics: Greece Apollonius; Pergamum Apollonius; rhodes Eudemus, Geminus, posidonius;Rome Boethius; Samos Aristarchus, Conon, Pythagoras; Smyrna Theon; http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/greece.html
History Of Mathematics: Chronology Of Mathematicians A list of all of the important mathematicians working in a given century.Category Science Math Mathematicians Directories 100 BCE. Zenodorus (c. 100 BCE?); posidonius (c. 135c. 51) *SB; MarcusTerentius Varro (116-27); Zeno of Sidon (c. 79 BCE); Geminus of rhodes (fl. http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/chronology.html
Extractions: Note: there are also a chronological lists of mathematical works and mathematics for China , and chronological lists of mathematicians for the Arabic sphere Europe Greece India , and Japan 1700 B.C.E. 100 B.C.E. 1 C.E. To return to this table of contents from below, just click on the years that appear in the headers. Footnotes (*MT, *MT, *RB, *W, *SB) are explained below Ahmes (c. 1650 B.C.E.) *MT Baudhayana (c. 700) Thales of Miletus (c. 630-c 550) *MT Apastamba (c. 600) Anaximander of Miletus (c. 610-c. 547) *SB Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570-c. 490) *SB *MT Anaximenes of Miletus (fl. 546) *SB Cleostratus of Tenedos (c. 520) Katyayana (c. 500) Nabu-rimanni (c. 490) Kidinu (c. 480) Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (c. 500-c. 428) *SB *MT Zeno of Elea (c. 490-c. 430) *MT Antiphon of Rhamnos (the Sophist) (c. 480-411) *SB *MT Oenopides of Chios (c. 450?) *SB Leucippus (c. 450) *SB *MT Hippocrates of Chios (fl. c. 440) *SB Meton (c. 430) *SB
Posidonius of rhodes. Tutor of Cicero and Pompee. Named by Riccioli (1651) Langrenus chartLafaillii Hevelius chart Insula Macra Riccioli chart posidonius Longitude http://www.clearnights.com/Posidonius.htm
POSIDONIUS posidonius (c. 13050 BC), nicknamed the Athlete, Stoic philosopher, themost learned When he settled as a teacher at rhodes (hence his surname the http://32.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PO/POSIDONIUS.htm
Extractions: See Lukaszewicz, Historisch-statistisches Bild der Stadt Posen 9681793 (Ger. trans., Posen, 1881); Ohlenschlager, Kurzgefasste Geschichte und Beschreibung der Stadt Posen (Posen, 1886); Warschauer, Stadibuch von Posen (Posen, 1892) ; and Führer durch Posen (Posen, 1895). POSIDIPPUS (3rd cent. B.c.), Greek dramatist, of Cassandrea in Macedonia, the last and one of the most distinguished of the writers of the new comedy. He began to write for the stage jh 289 B.c., and, according to SuIdas, wrote 40 plays, of which 17 titles and some fragments have been preserved. He appears to have gone somewhat out of the beaten track in his choice of subjects, and it is evident that cooks held an important position in his list of characters. His comedies were frequent]y imitated by the Romans (Atilus Gellius ii. 23), and it is considered very probable that the Menaechm-i (a comedy of errors) of Plautus is an adaptation either from the °Otsofot, or from some unknowfl comedy of Posidippus, called ~ltIvjzot, or perhaps M~vafyjzo1. His statue in the Vatican is considered a masterpiece of ancient art. Fragments in A. Meineke, Poetarum comicorum graccorum fragmenta (1855).
Posidonius - Acapedia - Free Knowledge, For All posidonius was a student of Panaetius of rhodes. He was a stoic withmany influential friends. His pupils were Cicero and Pompey. http://acapedia.org/aca/Posidonius
INTERNATIONAL WRITERS' & TRANSLATORS' CENTER OF RHODES. GREECE student of Aristotle, Evdimus the Rhodian, taught Peripatetic Philosophy in rhodes. hismost famous students were Ekaton the Rhodian, posidonius from Apamia http://www.literarycentre.gr/english/rhodes/rhodeshistory.html
Extractions: Mythology In the 7th Olympic Hymn, dedicated to the Rhodian Olympic champion Diagoras, Pindar preserves the legend concerning the rise of Rhodes from the depths of the Aegean: the gods had shared the land, but they forgot to give Helios a share, since he was absent on his daily trip. Although Zeus was ready to re-share the lots, Helios prevented him because he saw rising from the foaming sea a rich and beautiful land, which he asked to be given to him as his lot. Zeus then invited the golden veiled Lachesi to give the vow that the new land would be the lot of Helios. A little prior to the Trojan expedition, Tliptolemos, the son of Hercules, was the king of Rhodes. He participated in this pan-Hellenic expedition with nine ships, as we read in the second rhapsody of the Iliad. As is the case with all the ancient cosmogonic myths, so it is with the ancient mythology referring to Rhodes, which explains and narrates in a poetical way the geology and the pre-history of the island. Antiquity From Homer we learn that during antiquity there were three cities on Rhodes: Lindos, Ialysos and Kamiros. These cities, which were already flourishing even from post-Minoan times, continued to flourish during the Mycenaean period, as is evident from the necropolis of Kamiros and Ialysos. A new period of prosperity is ushered in after the arrival of the Doric population from Argos, which occurred during the 11th century BC. The Doric domination over the population (in terms of language, religion and customs), encompasses Rhodes into the great Doric family. The three cities of Rhodes, together with Kos, Knidos and Halicarnassus constitute the Doric hexapolis, an amphictyony of the Dorian colonists of Asia Minor. Their religious centre was the temple of Triopios Apollo, located on the peninsula of Knidos.
Astrology In The Roman World 200 B.C. - 500 A.D. posidonius taught at his school on the Island of rhodes where among hispupils was the first major Roman astrologer, Nigidius Figulus. http://www.nickcampion.com/nc/history/roman.htm
DPhA P Translate this page 296, posidonius D'APAMEE, 297, posidonius D'HERMOPOLIS, (FLAVIUS -). 298, POSOCHARES(POSOCHARES), 307, PRAXIPHANE DE MITYLENE, OU DE rhodes. 308, PRISCIANUS, http://upr_76.vjf.cnrs.fr/Instruments_travail/Dict_philosophes/DPhA_P.html
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