Kyrene

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Κυρήνη (Kurḗnē).

Kyrene

1. Alternative spelling of Cyrene.
   • 1890, Cecil [Harcourt-]Smith, “A Protokorinthian Lekythos in the British Museum”, in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, volume XI, London: […] Council [of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies], and sold […] by Macmillan and Co., […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 178:

     To resume then, it would seem that both the pinakes, the fabrics of Naukratis and Daphnae, and the fabrie of Kyrene share in common with the Protokorinthian ware certain relations to the metal bowls of Phoenician origin.

   • 2003, John H. Kunkel, “Aster”, in The Winged Soul: Plato’s Autobiography, Philadelphia, Pa.: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 87:

     Sokrates remembered with pleasure an earlier visit by Theodoros, the mathematician who now lived in Kyrene, but thought more of the man than his subject.

   • 2006, Duncan Sprott, “Mud Bricks”, in Daughter of the Crocodile (Ptolemies Quartet; 2), London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, part 1 (Sister-Lover Ptolemy Philadelphos), page 103:

     Aye, upon the horizon was Magas, Berenike Alpha’s son, the young man whom Ptolemy Soter had sent as Strategos, or Governor, to Kyrene thirty years before.