Cyrene

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Cyrene was an ancient Greek city stationed in present-day Libya, situated in a lush valley in the Jebel Akhdar uplands. It was the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region.

The city was named after a spring, Kyre, which the Greeks consecrated to Apollo and was also the seat of the Cyrenaics, a famous school of philosophy in 4th century BCE, founded by Aristippus, a disciple of Socrates; it was then nicknamed the "Athens of Africa". Cyrene became part of the Ptolemaic Kingdom controlled from Alexandria during the 3rd century BCE, before becoming Roman territory in 96 BCE when the Ptolemies bequeathed Cyrenaica to Rome.

In 47 BCE, the Medjay Bayek pursued the Roman proconsul and Order of the Ancients member Flavius Metellus to the Temple of Zeus in Cyrene, killing him and retrieving the Apple of Eden from him.

Trivia

• Cyrene is depicted in the game to be much closer to Alexandria than it was in reality. It was actually located almost 500 miles west, near the modern-day village of Shahhat in Libya.

Gladiator Arena

Cyrene is home to one of the two Gladiator Arenas in Assassin's Creed Origins. The Cyrene Gladiator Arena has five events, each ending with a boss fight. They are The Hammer, The Axes, The Hoplite, The Seleucid, and The Duelist.

Appearance

• Assassin's Creed: Origins

References

• Assassin's Creed: Origins