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Posidonius
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Legacy and Reception
Posidonius was highly valued by later Roman thinkers, notably Cicero, who utilized his work extensively, particularly in the fields of natural philosophy and ethics, despite his own allegiance to the New Academy. Strabo, the geographer, relied heavily on Posidonius’s descriptive geography, often reproducing his distance estimates and ethnographic notes, though Strabo remained cautious regarding his sometimes exaggerated linear measurements [1].
The breadth of his learning led to the title *The Teacher o…