Cyrene

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Cyrene was an ancient Greek city stationed in present-day Libya, situated in a lush valley in the Green Mountains. 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 the 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.

During the 1st century BCE, Cyrene was home to one of the gladiator arenas in Ptolemaic Egypt, the other located in Krokodilopolis.

History

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.

Gallery

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  Concept Art Cyrene's Agora district
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  Concept Art of Cyrene's gates at dawn
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  Production SKetches of Cyrene
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  Concept Art of Cyrene as viewed from Qara road
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  Concept Art of Cyrene's gates
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  Concept Art of Cyrene's Rich district

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.

Appearance

• Assassin's Creed: Origins

References

• Assassin's Creed: Origins