The main source for the affair is a mythology à clef by Synesius of Cyrene, Aegyptus sive de providentia, ( 400 ) an Egyptianising allegory that embodies a covert account of the events, the exact interpretation of which continues to baffle scholars.

Ethical hedonism is said to have been started by a student of Socrates, Aristippus of Cyrene.

There is also circumstantial evidence that auxiliary reinforcements were sent from Germany, and an unnamed British war of the period is mentioned on the gravestone of a tribune of Cyrene.

Raphael ’ s " Lo Spasimo di Sicilia ” depicts an event in Christian history when Christ falls while carrying the cross, sees his mother in distress and is helped up by Simon of Cyrene.

* Apama II ( about c. 292 BC-sometime after 249 BC ), wife of Magas of Cyrene and mother of Berenice II, who is also known as Arsinoe

* Cyrene is left to the people of Rome by its ruler Ptolemy Apion.

Under the agreement, Antipater becomes the regent of the Macedonian Empire on behalf of the two kings: the intellectually retarded Philip III Arrhidaeus and the infant Alexander IV of Macedon while Ptolemy is confirmed in possession of Egypt and Cyrene.

There is a reference in an Assyrian inscription from Sargon II's time to Anami, a tribe located in Cyrene, Libya.

Cyrenaica ( ;, after the city of Cyrene ; ; Berber: ) is the historical name of the eastern region in Libya, which self-declared autonomy.

A revolt in Cyrene is also crushed.

The clod is accidentally washed overboard and carried to the island Thera, and Libya is colonized from that island by Battus of Thera, an alleged distant descendant of Euphemus ( by 17 generations ), who founds Cyrene.

Cyrene is also mentioned in the second and third hymns of Callimachus as well as in The Poet and the Women ( written by Aristophanes ) whence Mnesilochus comments that he " can't see a man there at all-only Cyrene " when setting eyes upon the poet Agathon who emerges from his house to greet Euripides and himself dressed in women's clothing.

With Ares, Cyrene ( if indeed this is the same Cyrene ) was the mother of Diomedes of Thrace.

This is the story told in the Telegony, an early Greek epic that does not survive except in a summary, but which was attributed to Eugamon or Eugammon of Cyrene and written as a sequel to the Odyssey.

Cyrene is referred to in the deuterocanonical book 2 Maccabees.

The book of 2 Maccabees itself is said by its author to be an abridgment of a five-volume work by a Hellenized Jew by the name of Jason of Cyrene who lived around 100 BC.

Cyrene is now an archeological site near the village of Shahhat.

Other ancient structures include a temple to Demeter and a partially unexcavated temple to Zeus There is a large necropolis approximately 10 km between Cyrene and its ancient port of Apollonia.

He is known to have studied with Menecrates in Ephesus and Philitas in Cos. As a disciple of the Peripatetic philosopher Praxiphanes, in Athens, he met the Stoic philosopher Zeno, as well as Callimachus of Cyrene and Menedemus, the founder of the Eretrian School.

The names of Hamilcars ’ parents are unknown, and it is hypothesized that the family may have come from Cyrene and was part of the landed aristocracy of Carthge.

It was also known as Pentapolis, the " five cities " being Cyrene ( near the village of Shahhat ) with its port of Apollonia ( Susa ), Arsinoe ( Taucheira ), Berenice ( Benghazi ) and Barca ( Marj ).

It also attracted scholars from all over the Mediterranean such as Eratosthenes of Cyrene.

She was said to be mother of Lycus and Nycteus by Poseidon ; of Eurypylus ( or Eurytus ), King of Cyrene, and Lycaon, also by Poseidon ; and of Lycus and Chimaereus by Prometheus.

Others state that Eurypylus was a king of Cyrene, and note that the brothers were also referred to as Eurytus and Lycaon.

See also Acts 2: 10 where Jews from Cyrene heard the disciples speaking in their own language in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost ; 6: 9 where some Cyrenian Jews disputed with a disciple named Stephen ; 11: 20 tells of Jewish Christians originally from Cyrene who ( along with believers from Cyprus ) first preached the Gospel to non-Jews ; 13: 1 names Lucius of Cyrene as one of several to whom the Holy Spirit spoke, instructing them to appoint Barnabas and Saul ( later Paul ) for missionary service.

Cyrene, a Greek colony, also had a Jewish community where 100, 000 Judean Jews had settled during the reign of Ptolemy Soter ( 323-285 BC ) and was an early center of Christianity.

Some also link Simon himself with the " men of Cyrene " who preached the Gospel to the Greeks in Acts 11: 20.

* A twelve-book essay about Homer's Catalogue of Ships, also based on Eratosthenes of Cyrene and Demetrius of Scepsis, dealing with Homeric geography and how it has changed along the centuries.

Some exceptions existed, namely the two hereditary Kings of Sparta ( who served as joint commanders of the army, and were also called arkhagetai ), the Kings of Syracuse, the Kings of Cyrene, the Kings of Macedon and of the Molossians in Epirus and Kings of Arcadian Orchomenus.

He was the lead actor in Cecil B. DeMille's The Volga Boatman ( 1926 ) and DeMille's extravaganza, The King of Kings, helping Christ carry the cross as Simon of Cyrene and also in DeMille's Skyscraper.

Battus of Cyrene might also be mentioned.

At first they were erroneously attributed, being considered for a long time to be a product of Cyrene, where some of the earliest pieces were also found.

Demetrius the Fair or surnamed The Handsome ( Greek: Δημήτριος ὁ Καλός, around 285 BC-249 BC or 250 BC ), also known in modern ancient historical sources as Demetrius of Cyrene, was a Hellenistic king of Cyrene.

It has even been suggested that the Rufus mentioned by Paul in Romans 16: 13 is the son of Simon of Cyrene.

On November 16, 1940, McIntyre was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of New York and Titular Bishop of Cyrene by Pope Pius XII.

By Cyrene, Apollo had a son named Aristaeus, who became the patron god of cattle, fruit trees, hunting, husbandry and bee-keeping.

These troops, returning home from a disastrous military expedition to Cyrene in Libya, suspected that they had been betrayed in order that Apries, the reigning king, might rule more absolutely by means of his Greek mercenaries ; many Egyptians fully sympathized with them.

His kingdom consisted probably of Egypt only, as far as the First Cataract, but to this he added Cyprus, and his influence was great in Cyrene.

The remainder escaped to Cyrene and thence returned home.

Founded by Aristippus of Cyrene, Cyrenaics supported immediate gratification or pleasure.

The Cyrenaics were an ultra-hedonist Greek school of philosophy founded in the 4th century BCE, supposedly by Aristippus of Cyrene, although many of the principles of the school are believed to have been formalized by his grandson of the same name, Aristippus the Younger.

The school was so called after Cyrene, the birthplace of Aristippus.

On the way back to Iolcus, Medea prophesied to Euphemus, the Argo's helmsman, that one day he would rule Cyrene.

It starts with the period of the Maccabees and concludes with accounts of the fall of Jerusalem, and the succeeding fall of the fortresses of Herodion, Macharont and Masada and the Roman victory celebrations in Rome, the mopping-up operations, Roman military operations elsewhere in the Empire and the uprising in Cyrene.

J. Wenham asserts that Luke was " one of the Seventy, the Emmaus disciple, Lucius of Cyrene and Paul's kinsman.

Eratosthenes the Cyrene was the first to divide the surface of the earth into lines of latitude and longitude.

Aristaeus went to his mother, Cyrene, for help ; she told him that Proteus could tell him how to prevent another such disaster, but would do so only if compelled.

According to Herodotus ( 4. 149-165 ), following a drought of seven years, Thera sent out colonists who founded a number of cities in northern Africa, including Cyrene.

The following year he was elected quaestor and served in Crete and Cyrene.

* Ptolemy finally brings the rebellious region of Cyrene under his control.

* Jews in Egypt and Cyrene ignite a revolt ( Kitos War ) against the rule of the Roman Empire, which spreads to Cyprus, Judea, and the Roman province of Mesopotamia.

* An earthquake strikes Ephesus and Cyrene.

Greek-Jewish clashes at Cyrene in 73 AD and 117 AD and in Alexandria in 115 AD provide examples of cosmopolitan cities as scenes of tumult.