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  • 13j - Cyrene

  • from 13 - The West
    • By Joyce Reynolds, Fellow of Newnham College, and Emeritus Reader in Roman Historical Epigraphy in the University of Cambridge, J. A. Lloyd, Lecturer in Archaeology in the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Wolf son College
  • Edited by Alan K. Bowman, University of Oxford, Edward Champlin, Princeton University, New Jersey, Andrew Lintott, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Ancient History
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    08 February 1996, pp 619-640

  • Summary

    Ancient accounts of the country are schematic and principally concerned with the Cyrene area but they show some appreciation of the configuration and its effects. The ancient sources encourage belief that the Cyrenaicans were all Greeks or Greco-Romans; but the indigenous Libyan population was large and a significant element in regional history. In the early second century BC, there had been four Greek cities, Cyrene, Ptolemais, Teuchira and Berenice. Between the early second century and 67 BC a fifth, Apollonia was created through promotion of Cyrene's main port; and since Hellenistic royal creations were normally given dynastic names it is possible that this was due to Roman intervention. After the Marmaric War, reconstruction in the cities was taken in hand quickly. Among dedications, the city's large marble altar for the cult of Gaius and Lucius Caesar in the agora is a notable, and surely costly, demonstration of the point.