Kyrenean

English Etymology From en Kyrene an. Adjective en Cyrenian. en 1914 James Alexander Kerr Thomson Minyans and Ionians Studies in the Odyssey Oxford, Oxfordshire At the Clarendon Press 72 https://archive.org/details/studiesinodyssey0000thom/page/72/mode/1up 3428290 Recall the intimate relations which we know to have subsisted between Kyrene and Arcadia: community of cults, such as that of Zeus Lykaios; the divine figure of Aristaios, son of the nymph Kyrene and a god in Arcadia; the mission of Demonax—Demonax of Mantineia—to reform the Kyrenean constitution; en 1982 Duncan Head Kyrene Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars 359 BC to 146 BCOrganisation, Tactics, Dress and Weapons. 188 Illustrations [Goring-by-Sea, Worthing] w:Wargames Research Group 23 https://archive.org/details/bwb_KR-696-893/page/23/mode/1up 59743049 In 322 Kyrene raised 30,000 troops under elected generals, but these included Libyan and Carthaginian allies. Ophellas, Ptolemy I’s governor of Kyrene, marched in 308 to join Agathokles of Syracuse with 10,000 foot, 600 horse, and 100 chariots with 300 crew, plus 10,000 non-combatants. The chariots were presumably Kyrenean; en 2015 w:Josiah Ober Creative Destruction and Immortality The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece The Princeton History of the Ancient World Princeton, N.J. w:Princeton University Press 2016 (3rd printing) 304 https://archive.org/details/risefallofclassi0000ober/page/304/mode/1up 978-0-691-17314-6 As the University of Chicago’s Alain Bresson argues in his definitive analysis of the document, the actual price charged by the Kyrenean state authorities was probably well below what they could have demanded in light of the grain shortage. Noun en Cyrenian. en 1982 Duncan Head Kyrene Armies of the Macedonian and Punic Wars 359 BC to 146 BCOrganisation, Tactics, Dress and Weapons. 188 Illustrations [Goring-by-Sea, Worthing] w:Wargames Research Group 23 https://archive.org/details/bwb_KR-696-893/page/23/mode/1up 59743049 There is no specific evidence for Kyrenean troops being called up to fight for Ptolemaic Egypt, unless the cavalry “from Libya” at Raphia were indeed Kyreneans, but it is likely they could be called on if wanted. Kyreneans however seem to have enlisted in the Ptolemaic regular army in some numbers. en 2003 w:Debra Hamel Notes Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan’s Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece New Haven, Conn. w:Yale University Press chapter 7 (The Feud), note 10 179 https://archive.org/details/tryingneairatrue0000hame/page/179/mode/1up 0-300-09431-0 We cannot know why Stephanos disguised his witnesses as Kyreneans. Stephanos may not have wanted the court to know that the witnesses he was presenting—who were perhaps manifestly non-Greek—were slaves. But why Kyrene was selected as their country of origin is not clear. en 2015 w:Josiah Ober Creative Destruction and Immortality The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece The Princeton History of the Ancient World Princeton, N.J. w:Princeton University Press 2016 (3rd printing) 304 https://archive.org/details/risefallofclassi0000ober/page/304/mode/1up 978-0-691-17314-6 As Alain Bresson cogently argues, the Kyreneans erected the inscription because they were proud of having saved the other Greeks from a potential famine.