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Eratosthenes
Eratosthenes of Cyrene ( ; ; – ) was an Ancient Greek polymath: a philosopher, scholar, mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. Eratosthenes eventually became the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria. His work was the precursor to the modern discipline of geography, and he introduced some of its terminology, coining the terms geography and geographer.

Gaius Asinius Pollio
Roman politician, historian and writer (75 BC–AD 4)