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Poseidonis is the fictional last remnant of the lost continent of Atlantis, mentioned by Algernon Blackwood in his short story "Sand" (published in 1912) in his collection Four Weird Tales and also detailed in a series of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith.
Posidonius, nicknamed "the Athlete" (Ἀθλητής), [8] [9] was born around 135 BC. [10] He was born into a Greek family in Apamea, [11] [12] [13] a Hellenistic city on the river Orontes in northern Syria. [14] As historian Philip Freeman puts it: "Posidonius was Greek to the core". [12] Posidonius expressed no love for his native ...
Posidonius. Born: c. 135 bce. Died: c. 51 bce. Poseidonius (born c. 135 bce —died c. 51 bce) was a Greek philosopher, considered the most-learned man of his time and, possibly, of the entire Stoic school. Poseidonius, nicknamed “the Athlete,” was a native of Apamea in Syria and a pupil of the Greek Stoic philosopher Panaetius.
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Oct 3, 2020 · Aristocratic temperament, decadent prose, oneiric visions: we retrace “Poseidonis”, one of the most significant narrative cycles of Clark Ashton Smith.
May 26, 2021 · An overview of the life and work of Posidonius, a Stoic philosopher, scientist, and historian from the 1st century BCE. Learn about his sources, influences, and contributions to various fields of knowledge.
Poseidonis is a collection of fantasy short stories by Clark Ashton Smith, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifty-ninth volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in July 1973.
Posidonius of Rhodes is also known as Posidonius of Apameia. The first of these names refers to where he taught while the second refers to the town of his birth, Apameia on the Orontes. One must not think of these two as different people.
