12 Facts About Cyrene Libya

Not knowing how to get to Cyrene Libya, they sent a messenger to Crete to find someone to lead them on their journey.

Cyrene Libya had once traveled to an island near Libya called Platea [or Plataea, modern Jazirat Barda`ah].

Cyrene promptly became the chief town of Libya and established commercial relations with all the Greek cities, reaching the height of its prosperity under its own kings in the 5th century BC.

In 413 BC, during the Peloponnesian War, Cyrene Libya supplied Spartan forces with two triremes and pilots.

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

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Plutarch in his work De mulierum virtutibus describes how the tyrant of Cyrene Libya, Nicocrates, was deposed by his wife Aretaphila of Cyrene Libya around the year 50 BC.

Cyrene Libya is referred to in the deuterocanonical book 2 Maccabees.

Ammianus Marcellinus described it in the 4th century as a deserted city, and Synesius, a native of Cyrene Libya, described it in the following century as a vast ruin at the mercy of the nomads.

Cyrene Libya contributed to the intellectual life of the Greeks, through renowned philosophers and mathematicians.

The School of Cyrene Libya, known as the Cyrenaics, developed here as a minor Socratic school founded by Aristippus.

Cyrene Libya was the birthplace of Eratosthenes, who later went to Alexandria.

Cyrene Libya is an archeological site near the village of Shahhat east of Bayda.