Kyrenaean

From Ancient Greek Κυρηναῖος (Kurēnaîos) +‎ -an.

Kyrenaean (comparative more Kyrenaean, superlative most Kyrenaean)

1. Alternative form of Cyrenian.
   • 1987, Irad Malkin, “The Foundation of Kyrene in Libya”, in Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece (Studies in Greek and Roman Religion; 3), Leiden: E.J. Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, part I (Religion and the Foundation of Greek Colonies), chapter I (The Founders of Colonies and Apollo’s Oracle), page 64:

     Structurally, oracles II and III of the Kyrenaean version correspond to oracle II of the Theraian, that is, an inquiry following a failure to accomplish the colonization.

   • 1993, “Lanuvium. Bilingual dedication of two ambassadors of Ptolemais to their patron, late 1st cent. b.c.”, in H[enk] W. Pleket, R[onald] S. Stroud, editors, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, volume XL (1990), Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 259:

     R. rejects A.’s view that the ambassadors of the Kyrenaean Ptolemaiei (L. 3) were Jews; […]

   • 2007, Stephanie L. Larson, “Boiotian Manufacture of Raw Materials and Weaponry”, in Tales of Epic Ancestry […] (Historia Einzelschriften; 197), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Boiotian Coinage and the Shared Symbol of the “Boiotian” Shield), “The Symbol of the Cutout Shield” section, page 105:

     Between ca. 510 and 480, for example, Kyrene minted silver issues which on the obverse depicted the silphium fruit or the entire silphium plant, a medicinal and culinary herb famous in antiquity for its origin at Kyrenaean silphium plantations.

   • 2013, Robert L. Fowler, “Zeus Hikesios and Alastoros (Pher. fr. 175)”, in Early Greek Mythography, volume II (Commentary), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part A (Mythological Commentary), section 1 (Theogony), subsection 8 (Epitheta Deorum), page 71:

     The Kyrenaean inscription, having used the word of malevolent spirits, goes on immediately to apply it to human suppliants (110–22).

Kyrenaean (plural Kyrenaeans)

1. Alternative form of Cyrenian.
   • 1939 September [1933], Jan Parandowski, translated by A. M. Malecka and S. A. Walewski, “The Cosmos”, in The Olympic Discus, London: Minerva Publishing Co. Ltd. […], →OCLC, page 60:

     A week later the Kyrenaean shifted into the town.

   • 1987, Irad Malkin, “Battos and Kyrene”, in Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece (Studies in Greek and Roman Religion; 3), Leiden: E.J. Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, part II (The Cult of the Founder), chapter VI (Founders and their Cults), page 205:

     The scholion on Aristophanes Plut. 925 serves as a corroboration: “The Kyrenaeans honour him as the Archēgetēs.”

   • 2010, Thomas Stanley, “Wonders Related of Him”, in James Wasserman, editor, Pythagoras: His Life and Teachings: A Compendium of Classical Sources, Lake Worth, Fla.: Ibis Press, →ISBN, part 1 (The Life of Pythagoras), page 87:

     Insomuch that Aristippus the Kyrenaean, in his book on Physiology, says he was named “Pythagoras” from speaking things as true as Pythian Apollo.