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...administrator. In those days a man's best qualification for the Indian Civil Service consisted mainly in being able to answer such questions as: Write succinctly and in Latin biographical notices of the following personages, stating the date and place of birth of each: Theramenes, Polybius, Poseidonius, Arcesilaus, Parmenides, Eratosthenes...
...back as records go the Welsh have been a singing people, rating a good voice next to royal blood, competing valiantly in song festivals, regarding music and poetry as national sports. Roman Poseidonius of Apamea noted in the second Century B.C., that the inhabitants of Wales "have poets whom they call bards, who sing songs of eulogy and of satire, accompanying themselves on instruments very like the lyre." Even hard-headed Julius Caesar, with his general's ear for music, mentioned in his Gallic War that the Druidic warriors "learn by heart a great number of verses." Scholars have...
Professor J. B. Bury, M.A., Litt.D., LL.D., Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University, delivered the fifth of his lectures on the Greek Historians last night in the Fogg Lecture Hall dwelling especially on Polybius and Poseidonius...
...Poseidonius, who closely followed Polybius, is becoming more and more recognized as one of the great historians. He was a stole and a close friend of Pompey, with whom he travelled extensively. Besides being a historian, Poseidonius was a philosopher, a geographer, an astronomer, and a mathematician, and played an important part in the political life of his times...
...LECTURES ON THE ANCIENT GREEK HISTORIANS. V. "Polybius and Poseidonius." Professor J. B. Bury, of the University of Cambridge. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...