Cyrenaeans
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people of Cyrene
in the texts
The Histories
The people of Cyrene, whose oral tradition about Battus's origins Herodotus reports as differing from the Theraean account.
and now begins the part in which the Theraean and Cyrenaean stories agree, but not until now, for the Cyrenaeans tell a wholly different story about Battus, which is this.
When they appeared before the city of Cyrene, the Cyrenaeans let them pass through their city, so that a certain oracle might be fulfilled.
The Persians asked and received from the Cyrenaeans provisions for their march, after which they left to go to Egypt;
History of the Peloponnesian War
Greek people of Cyrene in Libya who assist the storm-driven Peloponnesian reinforcements bound for Sicily.
For when they had been carried by a tempest to Libya, and the Cyrenaeans had given them two triremes, and pilots for their voyage, during their passage along shore they entered into alliance with the Euesperitae, who were being besieged by the Libyans, and defeated the latter people;
Cyropaedia
People whose chariot practice is cited as a living parallel to old Asian methods.
The method of managing a chariot employed of old at Troy and that in vogue among the Cyrenaeans even unto this day he abolished;