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    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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    miles. 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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    "Polyura posidonius​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Wikispecies has information related to Polyura posidonius. Polyura...
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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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  • 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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  • Cleomedes Geminus Hephaestio Macrobius Martianus Capella Menelaus Porphyry Posidonius Proclus Ptolemy Sosigenes of Alexandria Sosigenes the Peripatetic Strabo...
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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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  • Miletus Marinus Menelaus Metrodorus Nicomachus Pappus Perseus Porphyry Posidonius Proclus Ptolemy Pythagoras Serenus Simplicius Sosigenes of Alexandria...
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