Life
Posidonius, nicknamed "the Athlete", was born to a Greek family in Apamea, a Hellenistic city on the river Orontes in northern Syria, and probably died in Rome or Rhodes.
Posidonius completed his higher education in Athens, where he was a student of the aged Panaetius, the head of the Stoic school.
He settled around 95 BCE in Rhodes, a maritime state which had a reputation for scientific research, and became a citizen.
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