Cyrene

Cyrene

Cyrene was an ancient Greek city in the present-day Libya. It was the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region. It gave eastern Libya the classical name Cyrenaica that it has retained to modern times. ^{[citation needed]}

Cyrene lies in a lush valley in the Jebel Akhdar uplands. The city was named after a spring, Kyre, which the Greeks consecrated to Apollo. It was also the seat of the Cyrenaics, a famous school of philosophy in the 4th century BC, founded by Aristippus, a disciple of Socrates. It was then nicknamed the "Athens of Africa". Cyrene became part of the Ptolemaic empire controlled from Alexandria during the 3rd century BCE, before becoming Roman territory in 96 BC when the Ptolemies bequeathed Cyrenaica to Rome. ^{[citation needed]}

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