Posidonius

Reading notes

• On Anger §1.2 Posidonius

  Posidonius of Apamea (c. 135–51 BC), the leading Stoic of his day; the fragment preserved by Lactantius cites his definition of anger as the craving to punish one who has unjustly harmed you.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §9.78.28 Posidonius

  Posidonius of Apamea (c. 135--51 BC), the great Stoic polymath whom Seneca often cites; here for the maxim that a learned man's single day outreaches the ignorant man's longest age.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §14.90.5 Posidonius

  Posidonius of Apamea (c. 135–51 BC), the great Stoic polymath whose account of the origin of the arts and of early society Seneca disputes through this whole letter.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §14.92.10 Posidonius

  Posidonius of Apamea, the Stoic polymath, cited for the view of the flesh as a mere food-vessel joined to the divine mind.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §104.21 Posidonius

  Posidonius of Apamea (c. 135–51 BC), the great Stoic polymath and one of Seneca's chief authorities.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §108.38 Posidonius

  Posidonius of Apamea (c. 135–51 BC), the Stoic polymath and one of Seneca's chief authorities.

• Natural Questions §1.5.10 Posidonius

  The Stoic polymath of Apamea/Rhodes (c. 135–51 BC), a major scientific authority for Seneca; here on the rainbow as the sun's image in a concave cloud-mirror.