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	Cyrene Libya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The city of Cyrene (Shahat) is situated on the remains of the ancient city of "Kurena", 621 meters above sea-level.
		The Kingdom of Cyrene reached its grandeur about 400 B.C. During its settlement, the city waged war on two fronts, one war was launched against the Libyans, the owners of the country, while the other war was pointed against Carthage.
		Cyrene acknowledged the reign of the Ptolemais, the successors of Alexander the Great, and later on the region of the Roman Empire.
	www.libyaninvestment.com /travel/cyrene.html (624 words)

	Cyrenaica Archaeological Project
		To the southwest of the city in the Wadi bel Gadir lies the extra-mural Sanctuary to Demeter and Persephone, a recently discovered Greek temple and theatre complex, and the still unexplored southeastern suburbs and necropoli of Cyrene that run along the main road leading from Cyrene to Balagrae (modern el-Beida).
		At Cyrene, this celebration may have included a procession which began in the Demeter temple in the city's agora and ended in the extra-mural Sanctuary, a procession that perhaps inspired the Cyrenean poet Kallimachos when he composed his "Hymn to Demeter", while serving as librarian to the Ptolemaic court in Alexandria.
		This conservative city was controlled by a land-owning elite, who sustained many of their agrarian interests through the worship of Demeter and her daughter Persephone in the extra-mural Sanctuary in the Wadi bel Gadir, and who, through the rituals practiced within that Sanctuary, extended the authority of their polis over the surrounding region.
	www.cyrenaica.org (1913 words)

	Cyrene on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although the city became subject to Alexander the Great in 331 and was later practically annexed by the Ptolemies of Egypt, it seems to have had nominal independence until the marriage of Berenice (d.
		Cyrene remained part of the Ptolemaic kingdom until 96 BC It was later the center of a Roman province.
		At its prime Cyrene was a large and beautiful city and an intellectual center noted for its schools of medicine and philosophy.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Cyrene.asp (616 words)

	Cyrene, Libya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cyrene, the ancient Greek city (in present-day Libya) was the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region and gave eastern Libya the classical name 'Cyrenaica' that it has retained to modern times.
		Cyrene was the birthplace of Eratosthenes and there are a number of philosophers associated with the city including Callimachus, Carneades, Aristippus and Arete.
		Cyrene is also mentioned in the New Testament: One Simon of Cyrene carried the cross of Christ (Mark 15:21 and parallels).
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Cyrene,-Libya.htm (741 words)

	Cyrene (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Greek mythology, as recorded in Pindar's 9th Pythian ode, Cyrene (or Kyrene) ("sovereign queen") was the daughter of Hypseus, King of the Lapiths.
		He took her to North Africa and founded the city of Cyrene in her name.
		With Ares, Cyrene (if indeed this is the same Cyrene) was the mother of Diomedes of Thrace.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cyrene_(mythology) (132 words)

	Cyrene and the Cyrenaica
		Cyrene was founded in c.630 BCE as a colony of the Greek island town Thera, which had become too crowded.
		Although Cyrene was founded after a treaty with the natives, the relations between the Greeks and Libyans were often strained, and the settlers sometimes felt threatened.
		From Cyrene, the cult spread to the Greek mainland, and was especially propagated by the famous poet Pindar (522-445).
	www.livius.org /ct-cz/cyrenaica/cyrenaica.html (1552 words)

	Cyrene
		The principal city of that part of northern Africa which was sufficiently called Cyrenaica, lying between Carthage and Egypt, and corresponding with the modern Tripoli.
		Cyrene was a city of Libya in North Africa, lat.
		Their city appears as one of the important points in the wide circle of the Dispersion described by Peter in his sermon on that occasion (Act_2:10).
	holycall.com /biblemaps/cyrene.htm (863 words)

	Cyrenean Greeks, 630-74 BC (I/56)
		According to Greek mythology, Cyrene (Kyrene) was the daughter of the naiad Creusa and the mortal Hypseus, king of the Lapiths.
		Cyrene was beseiged, and at the height of the seige, a republican coup within the city prompted the oligarchs and upper class to flee, many taking refuge with Thibron and others trekking to Egypt to plead for Ptolemaic intervention.
		Cyrene's port at Apollonia was recognized as an independent city, and the region of Cyrenaica became known as the Pentapolis or the land of the five cities.
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/I56.html (1801 words)

	CYRENAICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Benghazi is Libya's second city famed in military history as the headquarters of the Italian forces during their occupation of Libya 1911, and this is reflected in much of the Italian style architecture.
		Cyrene, a city steeped in history and legends for thousand years is one of the best preserved archaeological sites in the Mediterranean region.
		During the Ptolemaic period, its importance was reflected in its status as one of the five cities of the Pentapolis, together with Cyrene, Apollonia, Ptolemais and Berenice (modern Benghazi).
	www.unitedtours-libya.com /cyrenaica.html (502 words)

	World Heritage Newsletter No. 9 (December 1995)
		Cyrene, a city steeped in history and legends for a thousand years, is one of the most complex archaeological sites in the Mediterranean region.
		Roughly circular in shape, the old city is composed of a cluster of houses; those on the outside, with their reinforced external walls, protect the city.
		The lessening flow of the Ain-el-Fras spring was partly to blame for the desertion of the old city in favour of the modern town, which was built entirely between 1975 and 1983, as well as for the decline of trade and agriculture.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/8744/unesco.htm (2518 words)

	Cyrene, Libya - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Cyrene submitted to the rule of Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great around 331 BC, after which the city was dominated by the Ptolemaic dynasty.
		The city was built around a spring in an eroded river valley 550 m (1800 ft) above sea level, where it was protected from the oppressive desert wind by the higher ground on its south.
		The city eventually spread out along both sides of the depression, with a citadel to the south, a market center to the southeast, and a temple of Zeus to the east.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /cyrene_libya.htm (423 words)

	New Wine E Church - Archive - "Was Simon of Cyrene Black?" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cyrene was a city on the Northern coast of Cyrenaica.
		According to the Jewish historian Josephus the city of Cyrene held a population of Jews and that the area (85 BC) was known for 5 classes of peoples; citizens, farmers, resident aliens, and Jews.
		The minority Jews of ancient Cyrene were known to have revolted against the Greek gods of the city, demolishing her idols during Roman rule after the time of Christ.
	www.newwineechurch.org /Archive-SimonCyreneBlack02-14-03.htm (776 words)

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		The modern city is known as Shahat and is situated on the upper slopes of Jabal Al-Akhdar, with impressive views across the plateau towards the sea.
		By the 4th century AD the city was uninhabited and in a state of advanced decay, It was largely ignored, except by passing bands of nomads, until the 19th century.
		The city's Apollo area attracted many visitors from all parts of the ancient world, who came to perform ablutions in the sacred fountain and to honour the god.
	www.arab.net /libya/la_cyrene.htm (792 words)

	Geographia: Asia and Africa
		Troy was a Phrygian city on the Troad.
		Sardis (Sardes) was the principal city of Lydia.
		Cyrene was probably an attendant of Artemis, and she was renowned for her skill in hunting.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/asia.html (2948 words)

	Cyrene
		The city of Cyrene was founded by Mynians, descendants of the Argonauts who had migrated to Lemnos and then to Sparta, and, from there, had followed Theras to the island of Thera.
		Cyrene is the birthplace of Theodorus, the mathematician staged in the Theætetus, Sophist and Statesman (Theætetus, 143d).
		Cyrene was also the birthplace of another Socratic philosopher, Aristippus, whose hedonistic school took the name "Cyrenaic" as a result.
	plato-dialogues.org /tools/loc/cyrene.htm (419 words)

	Cyrene
		A coin from Cyrene, with the Silphium plant which was used as as aphrodisiac and as contraceptive until around the 1st century AD when no plant was left.
		Cyrene - a daughter of the Naiad Creusa, and the, King of the Lapiths Hypsaeus the city Cyrene and the regions Cyrenaica named after her.
		Cyrene is the birthplace of the philosophers Aristippus, Callimachus, Carneades, Eratosthenes and Synesius; the latter, a convert to Christianity, died Bishop of Ptolemais.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Cities/Cyrene.html (741 words)

	World InfoZone - Libya Facts
		Cyrene was founded by Greek settlers from the island of Thera.
		Cyrene's author, Callimachus, was a major influence on the Roman poets Ovid and Catullus.
		The Roman Emperor, Septimius Severus, was born in the Libyan city of Leptis Magna.
	www.worldinfozone.com /facts.php?country=Libya (640 words)

	Cyrenean Greeks - Variant DBA 24e
		During the rein of the third king, Battus the Happy, however, the oracle at Delphi encouraged the migration of Greeks to Cyrene, and the multitude of new settlers expanded outward to form new settlements and seize lands from the neighboring Libyans.
		In subsequent years, Cyrene and its port at Apollonia (Marsa Sousa) became the chief town of the Lydian region between Egypt and Carthage, and traded with all the major Greek cities, reaching the height of its prosperity in the 5th century BC.
		Cyrene was then annexed by Ptolemy I, who successfully put down the revolt (which was more in the nature of a civil war) in 322 BC.
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/var24e.html (1356 words)

	WORLD ENCYCLOPAEDIA - Libya - Cyrenaica and the Greeks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		From Cyrene, the mother city and foremost of the five, derived the name of Cyrenaica for the whole region.
		Egypt, with Cyrene, went to Ptolemy, a general under Alexander who took over his African and Syrian possessions; the other Greek citystates of the Pentapolis retained their autonomy.
		Cyrene became one of the greatest intellectual and artistic centers of the Greek world, famous for its medical school, learned academies, and architecture, which included some of the finest examples of the Hellenistic style.
	encyclopaedic.net /world/libya/6.php (571 words)

	Achaea - Dreams of Divine Lands
		Cyrene was a city established before the days of Nicator and Seleucar, but after the founding of Ashtan and Shallam.
		The Highways of Achaea, consisting of the Prelatorian Highway and the Raphaelan Highway, extend from the city of Ashtan in the northwest to the city of Shallam in the southeast.
		An evil city that grew out of the establishment of the Baelgrim Fortress, Mhaldor is on the isle of the same name, formed from the land cast down upon Sartan, Lord of Evil, during a recent war between the Gods.
	www.achaea.com /geography.htm (7228 words)

	Libyaonline.com Information and Entertainment at your fingertips. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The city of Shahat lies on the ruins of Cyrene, 10 Km east of Al Baida.
		Cyrene was founded in 631 B.C., by some Greek adventurers coming from the island of Thera, known today as Santhorini.
		The city of Cyrene reached its peak during the Emperor Augustus's rule, it was both center and guiding force of the whole region.
	www.libyaonline.com /libya/cities/shahat.php (211 words)

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		The small Amazon was aware that Cyrene’s friendship with the shieldmaiden of Rohan was deep, and for a moment she felt a pang of jealousy.
		Would you help me?” Éowyn had sensed a change in Cyrene after the arrival of the King, and though she had been occupied helping Faramir with the attention to the new arrivals to the City, she had also noticed that Legolas was not among the guests of the Citadel.
		It was not a task Cyrene was required to take upon herself, but she focused her attention on the details of the preparation for the ride to the coast.
	www.geocities.com /legolasstory/mists31.txt (3533 words)

	Cyrene
		This myth has Cyrene wrestling a lion which was attacking her father's sheep.
		The god Apollo, passing by, saw this and immediately fell in love with her.
		He carried her off to Africa, where he built her a city (called Cyrene, on the coast of North Africa).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/c/cyrene.html (97 words)

	Cyrene, Greek Mythology Link.
		Apollo found Cyrene wrestling alone with a lion and carried her off to that part of Libya where in later times he founded a city and named it, after her, Cyrene.
		Others have said that Apollo carried Cyrene off, not when she was wrestling with a lion but while she was tending her sheep along the marsh-meadow of the river Peneus (which flows from the foot of Mt. Pindus in Thessaly).
		By either Apollo or by Abas 3 (son of Melampus 1, son of Amythaon 1, son of Cretheus 1, son of Aeolus 1) Cyrene became mother of Idmon 2, Coeranus 1, and Lysimache 1.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Cyrene.html (1570 words)

	Apollonia
		The ancient city is, however, free from occupation and its heavy Hellenistic walls lie along the shore some one hundred yards from the present beach.
		About one kilometer to the west of the city, between the Moslem cemetery and the sea, members of the expedition came upon the leveled platform of an ancient temple.
		The excavation was extremely successful in establishing the date of the city wall, the identification of the bath, and Apollonia's first pagan religious structure, the extra-mural Doric temple.
	www.umich.edu /~kelseydb/Excavation/Apollonia.html (940 words)

	Electronic Antiquities Volume I, Number 3
		(3) The city is first mentioned by ancient sources in Herodotus' account of the revolt of Barca and the Persian expedition to Cyrenaica in c.515 BC, where we learn that the punitive force sent by the satrap in Egypt conquered most of Cyrenaica and reached as far west as Euesperides.
		The authority of Cyrene over Euesperides was probably still quite firm during the second half of the fifth century, although we are not certain about the exact form of their relationship.
		Later in the fourth century, during the unsettling period which followed Alexander's death, the city backed the losing side in a revolt led by the Spartan adventurer Thibron; he was trying to create an empire for himself, but was defeated by the Cyreneans and their Libyan allies.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/ElAnt/V1N4/economou.html (3764 words)

	Hort 306 - READING 17-1
		The coins of Cyrene for centuries featured the plant whose gummy secretions were a royal export monopoly and constituted the wealth and pride of the land.
		Parenthetically he mentions that in Cyrene they fence off the silphion places so that the animals cannot get to them, and that the region bears all sorts of fruits and animals right up to the region where the silphion grows.
		The problem with the written history of silphion is that the writers who dealt with the plant from Theophrastus on - be they historians or herbalists - do not state explicitly that they had a view of the plant itself and that their description was not based on common knowledge or hearsay.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/history/lecture17/r_17-1l.html (3520 words)

	Column with Contents
		A beautiful city, called " the bride of the Mediterranean", is the largest city in Libya and the historical capital city.
		The city also offers a combined rich and colourful heritage and a tour guide is required to unveil this glorious heritage of the city.
		The city of Sousa was known as Apollonia during the Greek - Roman times and served as a port for the city of Cyrene, when the once well known Silphium plant was exported.
	www.cydamos.i12.com /newcities.htm (3037 words)

	cyrene
		The most important Greek city in North Africa, Cyrene was founded in the 7th century BC by a party of immigrants who had fled the drought-inflicted island of Thera in the Aegean Sea.
		Following reconstruction of the city, principally under the Emperor Hadrian, Cyrene again entered a period of prosperity.
		Built on a series of levels, the spectacular ruins of Cyrene include the Sanctuary and Temple of Apollo, the Acropolis, the Agora, the Forum, the Stoa of Hermes and Heracles, the House of Jason Magnus, the Nine Muses and the Temple of Zeus.
	www.caravanserai-tours.com /cyrene.htm (227 words)

	Cyrene (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
		a city (now Tripoli) in Upper Libya, North Africa, founded by a colony of Greeks (B.C. It contained latterly a large number of Jews, who were introduced into the city by Ptolemy, the son of Lagus, because he thought they would contribute to the security of the place.
		Jews from Cyrene were in Jerusalem at Pentecost (Acts 2:10); and Cyrenian Jews had a synagogue at Jerusalem (6:9).
		Converts belonging to Cyrene contributed to the formation of the first Gentile church at Antioch (11:20).
	christiananswers.net /dictionary/cyrene.html (138 words)

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