of synthesis, as if picking up doctrines from the wreck of the other schools,
incorporating the mathematics, astronomy, and geography of Eratosthenes and
Hipparchus, and contributing scientific advances of his own (DSB, 1981:
11:103–105). The reformed Stoicism of Posidonius, although famous in his
day, did not survive much past his lifetime, nor did his school at Rhodes; the
later Roman Stoics went back to preaching a crude amalgam of doctrines—
FIGURE 3.5. REALIGNMENT OF SCHOOLS IN THE ROMAN
CONQUEST, 200 B.C.E.–1 C.E.110 •^ The Skeleton of Theory