his name to literary criticism has created the term aristarch for someone who is a judgmental critic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samothrace   135 BC- 51 BC Posidonius ( Greek : Ποσειδώνιος / Poseidonios) "of Apameia " (ὁ Απαμεύς) or "of Rhodes " (ὁ Ρόδιος) (ca. 135 BCE - 51 BCE), was a Greek [1]