Cyrene
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Cyrene's sweet garden of Aphrodite · fortunate Cyrene · the well-built city of Cyrene
in the texts
The Histories
Greek city in Libya against which Apries sent a great force that suffered a great defeat, provoking the Egyptian revolt against him.
Apries sent a great force against Cyrene and suffered a great defeat.
Cyrene.
He gave to Cyrene a gilt image of Athena and a painted picture of himself;
Stromata
North African city where Aristotle set up the painted image of Lais.
Having sworn to the courtesan that he would take her away to his homeland if she would help him in something against his rivals, when he had accomplished it, gracefully fulfilling his oath, he had a most lifelike image of her painted and set it up at Cyrene—as Ister relates in his work On the Peculiarities of Contests.
And Arete of Cyrene, the daughter of Aristippus, educated Aristippus surnamed the Mother-taught.
Pythian
The historical Greek city in North Africa (Libya), founded by Battus and ruled by his descendant Arcesilas, the central setting of Pythian 4.
be bold, and apply all earnestness for the sake of fortunate Cyrene.
Cyrene and the most renowned hall of Battus recognized the just mind of Damophilus;
, with the honor of the gods, and govern the divine city of golden-throned Cyrene, having discovered the wisdom of right counsel.
Against Leptines
City associated with Epicerdes.
To Epicerdes of Cyrene, than whom no recipient of this honor ever deserved it better, not because his gifts were great or extraordinary, but because they came at a time when we were hard put to it to find, even among those whom we had benefited, anyone willing to remember our benefactions.
Archidamus
One proposed refuge for evacuated noncombatant Spartans.
For I declare that we must send our parents and our wives and children and the mass of the people away from Sparta, some to Sicily, some to Cyrene, others to the mainland of Asia, where the inhabitants will all gladly welcome them with gifts of ample lands and of the other means of livelihood as well, partly in gratitude for favors which they have received and partly in expectation of the return o …
To Philip
A colony founded by the Lacedaemonians, used as an example of prudent colonization.
In the first place, you, for your part, will have to be persuaded that the friendship of our city would be worth more to you than the revenues which you derive from Amphipolis, while Athens will have to learn, if she can, the lesson that she should avoid planting the kind of colonies which have been the ruin, four or five times over, of those domiciled in them, and should seek out for colonization …
Theaetetus
Theodorus's home city, mentioned by Socrates as a place whose young philosophers he cares less about than Athens's.
If I cared more for Cyrene and its affairs, Theodorus, I should ask you about things there and about the people, whether any of the young men there are devoting themselves to geometry or any other form of philosophy;
Adversus Judaeos
A city/region named as a boundary marker for the region of Africa in the list of believing nations.
In whom have the nations believed — the Parthians, the Medes, the Elamites, and those who dwell in Mesopotamia, Armenia, Phrygia, Cappadocia, and those who inhabit Pontus and Asia and Pamphylia, those who reside in Egypt, and those who inhabit the region of Africa beyond Cyrene, Romans and resident foreigners, and then the Jews in Jerusalem, and the other nations — as now the various tribes of the …
Hellenica
The home city of Eubotas, victor of the stadium race at the ninety-third Olympiad.
In the next year—in which was celebrated the ninety-third Olympiad, when the newly added two-horse race was won by Euagoras of Elis and the stadium by Eubotas of Cyrene, Euarchippus being now ephor at Sparta and Euctemon archon at Athens —the Athenians fortified Thoricus;