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🌍 Cyrene (Libya)

  • <span class="a type-6580" data-type_id="6580" data-object_id="8189687" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6580_8189687">👤 Libya </span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-6580" data-type_id="6580" data-object_id="10108061" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6580_10108061">👤 Cyrene (eponym) </span>
  • Information
    city in Libya
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/373778
    Identified with
    🌍 the Land of the Lotus-eaters (unlocatable) unlocatable place visited by OdysseusStraboGeographyStraboGreekEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)Artemidoros of EphesosArtemidoros of EphesosLate Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE)
    Cult site of
    👤 Aphrodite  👤 Apollo  👤 Zeus (Olympian)
    Place of conception of
    👤 Aristaios
    Place of birth of
    👤 Aphrodite  👤 Apollo  👤 Aristaios  👤 Euphemos (Argonaut)  👤 Hypseus (Thessalian)
    Place of death of
    👤 Ephialtes (Boiotian)  👤 Otos (Boiotian)  👤 the Golden Ram  👤 the Serpent of Colchis  👥 the Lemnian Men
    Place of burial of
    👤 Iolaos
    Settled by
    👤 Antenor (Trojan) prominent TrojanPindar, Pythian 5PindarGreekEarly Classical (ca. 480-450 BCE)🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) city in Boiotia🌍 Cyrene (Libya) city in LibyaPindar👤 Helen Helen of TroyPindar, Pythian 5PindarGreekEarly Classical (ca. 480-450 BCE)🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) city in Boiotia🌍 Cyrene (Libya) city in LibyaPindar
    Settled from
    🌍 Troy (Troad) city in the TroadPindar, Pythian 5PindarGreekEarly Classical (ca. 480-450 BCE)🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) city in Boiotia🌍 Cyrene (Libya) city in LibyaPindar
    Eponym
    👤 Cyrene (eponym) lover of Apollo, mother of Aristaios, eponym of Cyrene in LibyaCallimachus, Hymn to ApolloCallimachusGreekEarly Classical (ca. 480-450 BCE)Middle Classical (ca. 450-400 BCE)CallimachusPindar, Pythian 9Pindar🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) city in Boiotia🌍 Cyrene (Libya) city in LibyaPindar
    Reported to have depictions of
    👤 Cyrene (eponym)
    Related Entities
    👤 Antenor (Trojan)  👤 Aphrodite  👤 Apollo  👥 the Argonauts  👤 Aristaios  👤 Castor (Spartan)  👤 Euphemos (Argonaut)  👤 Zeus (Olympian)  👤 Jason (Argonaut)  👤 Helen  👤 Polydeuces (Spartan)  🌍 the Land of the Lotus-eaters (unlocatable)  👤 Medeia  🌍 Troy (Troad)  👤 Cyrene (eponym)  🌍 Thera (island)  🏛️ the House of Castor and Polydeuces (Sparta) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Apollo Carneios at Sparta 👤 Alexidamos  👥 the Lemnian Women  👥 the Descendants of the Argonauts  🌍 Maurousia (Africa)
    Mentioned by
    📖 Pausanias 3.16.2-3.16.3 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo 55-68 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo 69-79 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo 85-96 📖 Pindar, Pythian 4 1-63 📖 Pindar, Pythian 4 247-262 📖 Pindar, Pythian 5 1-42 📖 Pindar, Pythian 5 43-93 📖 Pindar, Pythian 9 1-70 📖 Pindar, Pythian 9 103-125 📖 Strabo 3.4.3 📖 Strabo 17.3.8 ⚒️ Inscription from Cyrene (Cyrene n/a)
    Mentioned in Text
    Pausanias Strabo Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo Pindar, Pythian 4 Pindar, Pythian 5 Pindar, Pythian 9
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Artemidoros of Ephesos fr. 77 Stiehle
    Relevant to local traditions reported from
    🌍 Gadeira (Iberia)
    Commissioned depictions of
    👤 Libya  👤 Cyrene (eponym)
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