Posidonius of Apamea, of Rhodes

**Posidonius** (pōsēdō`nēəs), Greek: Ποσειδώνιος (Poseidonios), (= “of Poseidon”), commonly named “ὁ Ἀπαμεύς” (= **“of Apameia”**) or “ὁ Ῥόδιος” (= **“of Rhodes”**) (b. ca. 135 B.C. in Apameia, Syria; d. 51 B.C. in Rome), nicknamed **“the Athlete”**, was a Greek Stoic philosopher, astronomer, geographer, politician (one of the Prytaneis at Rhodes), historian and teacher. Posidonius completed his higher education in Athens, where he was a student of the aged Panaetius, the head of the Stoic school. He settled in Rhodes around …