Category Archives: Poseidonios (Greek or Syrian)

Arabians and Aramaians: Poseidonios on relations between eastern peoples (first century BCE)

Assyrians, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Celts, and others: The Cicero brothers on the nature and effectiveness of divination (mid-first century BCE)

Barbarian wisdom: Poseidonios on inventors of the golden age (first century BCE)

Celts, Ethiopians and peoples in the middle: Polybios, Poseidonios, and Strabo on climate zones (mid-second century on)

Celts: Livy on legends of the Gauls’ fourth century BCE migrations and an invasion of Rome (late first century BCE)

Celts: Phylarchos and Poseidonios on banqueting and violent customs (first century BCE)

Celts: Strabo on peoples northwest of the Alps (early first century CE)

Germans, Suebians, Marcomannians, and Kimbrians: Poseidonios and Strabo on customs and rumours about the tides (first century BCE)

Guide to Poseidonios of Apameia

Iberians: Artemidoros, Poseidonios, Strabo, and others (second century BCE to first century CE)

Indians, Ethiopians, and Iberians: Poseidonios and Strabo on Eudoxos of Kyzikos’ expeditions (first centuries BCE and CE)

Indians, Taprobanians, and Serians: Pliny the Elder on numerous peoples and customs in India and beyond (first century CE)

Judeans: Mnaseas, Poseidonios, Apollonios Molon, Diodoros, Apion, and Damokritos on the statue of a donkey and on human sacrifice (second century BCE and on)

Judeans: Strabo on decline after Moses and banditry (early first century CE)

Libyans: Eratosthenes, Artemidoros, and Strabo on peoples and customs (early first century CE)

Mysians / Moesians: Poseidonios on their identification and customs based on Homer (first century BCE)

Parthians: Poseidonios on royal banquets (first century BCE)

Parthians: Strabo on Scythian origins and military success (early first century CE)

Phoenician wisdom: Strabo and Poseidonios on Mochos of Sidon (first century BCE)