Cyrene became a place of cultivation, where knowledge blossomed.
The son of Aglaos,
Eratosthenes was born in 276 BC in Cyrene.
Annual rainfall here, especially around Cyrene, can reach 500 millimetres 20 inches.
Her student Synesius, bishop of Cyrene, wrote a letter describing his construction of an astrolabe.
Born around 276 B.C. in Cyrene, Libya, Eratosthenes soon became one
of the most famous mathematicians of his time.
There is another translation that calssifies the Libertines who formed this synagogue as coming from Cyrene and Alexandria.
During his youth, Archimedes may have studied in Alexandria, Egypt,
where Conon of Samos and Eratosthenes of Cyrene were contemporaries.
Ptolemy Soter(323- 285 BC)
deported the Jews from Palestine and forced them to live in Cyrene Josephus Against Apion ii.
On this day, the record of Cyrene Perkins, whose portrait adorned the hall of fame in Australia,
was beaten by Sadov.
Today I found out about a man who fairly accurately estimated the circumference of the Earth
well over 2,000 years ago: Eratosthenes of Cyrene.
The majority of tourists that visit Eastern Libya use
Benghazi as a base for which to explore the Greek ruins in Cyrene or to make desert excursions south in Kufra.
It was a real miracle, Eugene beat Cyrene at a distance of 400 meters for as much as 1.47 seconds,
that in the world of sports- a very large gap.
Earlier and later lists by the historian Herodotus(484 BC- ca. 425 BC) and the architect Callimachus of Cyrene(ca. 305-
240 BC), housed at the Museum of Alexandria, survived only as references.
Now part of modern-day Libya, Cyrene had been founded by Greeks centuries earlier and became the capital of Pentapolis(North Africa),
a country of five cities: Cyrene, Arsinoe, Berenice, Ptolemias, and Apollonia.
Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger,
Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Alexander the Great conquered Cyrene in 332 BC, and following his
death in 323 BC, its rule was given to one of his generals, Ptolemy I Soter, the founder of the Ptolemaic Kingdom.
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger,
and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch,
and Saul.