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

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 ).

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.

It was usually attributed in Antiquity to Cinaethon of Sparta, but in one source was said to have been stolen from Musaeus by Eugamon or Eugammon of Cyrene ( see Cyclic poets ).

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

In circa 240 BC, Erastothenes of Cyrene deduced that the Earth was round and measured the circumference of the Earth, using trigonometry and the angle of the Sun at more than one latitude in Egypt.

After the death of Jugurtha, western Numidia was added to the lands of Bocchus, king of Mauretania, while the remainder ( excluding Cyrene and its locality ) continued to be governed by native princes until the civil war between Caesar and Pompey.

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.

He was counted among the Calydonian hunters and the Argonauts, and was connected with the legend of the foundation of Cyrene.

Euphemus was mythologically linked to the Greek colonization of Libya and foundation of Cyrene.

Some sources state that he was the father of Cyrene, alternately known as his granddaughter through Hypseus.

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, although some myths state that her father was actually the river-god Peneus and she was a nymph rather than mortal.

Other stories say that Cyrene was not wrestling with a lion but instead tending her sheep along the marsh-meadow of the river Pineios, and that Apollo later transformed her into a nymph to grant her a longer life.

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

Through Hypseus she was grandmother of Cyrene, one of the best known lovers of Apollo.

A minor god in Greek mythology, which we read largely through Athenian writers, Aristaeus or Aristaios (), " ever close follower of the flocks ", was the culture hero credited with the discovery of many useful arts, including bee-keeping ; he was the son of Apollo and the huntress Cyrene.

" Jesus carried his cross to the site of execution ( assisted by Simon of Cyrene ), called the place of the Skull, or " Golgotha " in Hebrew and in Latin " Calvary ".

Through her first marriage, she bore Philip: son King Magas of Cyrene, daughter Antigone who married as one of the wives of King Pyrrhus of Epirus and a daughter called Theoxena.

The three Synoptic Gospels refer to a man called Simon of Cyrene who is made to carry the cross (,, ), while in the Gospel of John () Jesus is made to carry His own cross.

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

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.

In addition to this, lists some " prophets and teachers " in Antioch: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen and Saul.

After the trials, Jesus made his way to Calvary ( the path is traditionally called via Dolorosa ) and the three synoptic gospels indicate that he was assisted by Simon of Cyrene, the Romans compelling him to do so.

The Greek towns lying west from Cyrene would naturally be called Libyan.

To confess the Crucified was called a token of being still in bondage to the angels who made the body, and it was condemned especially as a vain honour paid not to Christ, Who neither suffered nor was crucified, but to Simon of Cyrene.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Cyrene was founded in 630 BC as a settlement of Greeks from the Greek island of Thera ( Santorini ), traditionally led by Battus I, at a site ten miles from its associated port, Apollonia ( Marsa Sousa ).

In 74 BC Cyrene was created a Roman province ; but, whereas under the Ptolemies the Jewish inhabitants had enjoyed equal rights, they now found themselves increasingly oppressed by the now autonomous and much larger Greek population.

Plutarch in his work De mulierum virtutibus (" On the Virtues of Women ") describes how the tyrant of Cyrene, Nicocrates, was deposed by his wife Aretaphila of Cyrene around the year 50 BC

Ultimately, the city fell under Arab conquest in 643, by which time little was left of the opulent Roman cities of Northern Africa ; the ruins of Cyrene are located near the modern village of Shahhat.

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.