Posidonius (Greek: Ποσειδώνιος / Poseidonios) "of Apameia" (ὁ Απαμεύς) or "of Rhodes" (ὁ Ρόδιος) (ca. 135 BCE - 51 BCE), was a Greek Stoic philosopher, politician, astronomer, geographer, historian and teacher native to Apamea, Syria. He was acclaimed as the greatest polymath of his age. None of his vast body of work can be read in its entirety today, as it exists… (More on Posidonius)