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Cyrene

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Cy·re·ne  (s-rn)
An ancient Greek city of Cyrenaica. Founded c. 630 b.c., it was noted as an intellectual center with distinguished schools of medicine and philosophy.
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The answer to these questions was supplied by the "Telegony", a poem in two books by Eugammon of Cyrene (fl.
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So Herodotus recounts that when the people of Cyrene asked the oracle of Delphi to help them in their dissensions, the oracle told them to go to Mantinea, and the Mantineans lent them Demonax, who acted as a "setter straight" and drew up a new constitution for Cyrene.
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