Cyrene

Place

Civil War 3.5 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “He had collected a very large quantity of corn from Thessaly, Asia, Egypt, Crete, Cyrene, and other districts. …”

Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.

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Geographical record

Pleiades representative point · precise

An ancient Greek city founded in eastern Libya ca. 630 B.C., Cyrene later became part of the Roman Empire (ca. 74 B.C.). The site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1982.

Pleiades 373778 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 38 C1 Cyrene

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