Now some brutes force a man from Cyrene out of the crowd gathering to bear the cross of the Nazarene. |
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This runs counter to the Synoptic story which has the soldiers compelling Simon of Cyrene to carry the cross to Golgotha. |
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The first of the Cyrenaic school was Aristippus, who came from Cyrene, a Greek city on the north African coast. |
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Norske Skog and Circa Group will produce about 50 tonnes a year of the bio-solvent Cyrene for export to the European pharmaceutical and agrichemical markets. |
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When Diocletian redivided the Empire, Crete was placed, along with Cyrene, under the diocese of Moesia, and later by Constantine I to the diocese of Macedonia. |
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Of great importance to the economy of ancient Cyrene, silphium was frequently depicted on the coins of this Greek colony in what is now eastern Libya. |
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The Ptolemaic Kingdom was a powerful Hellenistic state, extending from southern Syria in the east, to Cyrene to the west, and south to the frontier with Nubia. |
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The following year he was elected quaestor and served in Crete and Cyrene. |
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