List of Famous people with last name Cyrene

Hegesias of Cyrene

First Name Hegesias
Born on January 1, -0400
Died on January 1, -0300 (aged 100)

Hegesias of Cyrene was a Cyrenaic philosopher. He argued that eudaimonia (happiness) is impossible to achieve, and that the goal of life should be the avoidance of pain and sorrow. Conventional values such as wealth, poverty, freedom, and slavery are all indifferent and produce no more pleasure than pain. Cicero claims that Hegesias wrote a book called ἀποκαρτερῶν, which persuaded so many people that death is more desirable than life that Hegesias was banned from teaching in Alexandria. It has been thought by some that Hegesias was influenced by Buddhist teachings.

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Synesius of Cyrene

First Name Synesius
Born on November 30, 0369
Died on November 30, 0412 (aged 43)

Synesius, a Greek bishop of Ptolemais in ancient Libya, a part of the Western Pentapolis of Cyrenaica after 410, was born of wealthy parents at Balagrae near Cyrene between 370 and 375.

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Magas of Cyrene

First Name Magas
Born on January 1, -0301
Died on November 30, -0251 (aged 49)

Magas of Cyrene was a Greek King of Cyrenaica. Through his mother’s second marriage to Ptolemy I he became a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty. He managed to wrest independence for Cyrenaica from the Greek Ptolemaic dynasty of Ancient Egypt, and became King of Cyrenaica from 276 BC to 250 BC.

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Arete of Cyrene

First Name Arete
Born on November 30, -0401
Died on November 30, -0341 (aged 60)

Arete of Cyrene was a Cyrenaic philosopher who lived in Cyrene, Libya. She was the daughter of Aristippus of Cyrene.

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Eubotas of Cyrene

First Name Eubotas
Born on November 30, -0401
Died on November 30, -0361 (aged 40)
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Eugammon of Cyrene

First Name Eugammon
Born on November 30, -0551
Died on January 1, -0600

Eugammon of Cyrene was an early Greek poet to whom the epic Telegony was ascribed. According to Clement of Alexandria, he stole the poem from the legendary early poet Musaeus; meaning, possibly, that a version of a long-existing traditional epic was written down by Eugammon. He is said to have flourished 567/6 BC.

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Lacydes of Cyrene

First Name Lacydes
Born on January 1, -0300
Died on November 30, -0206 (aged 93)

Lacydes of Cyrene, Academic Skeptic philosopher, was head of the Platonic Academy at Athens in succession to Arcesilaus from 241 BC. He was forced to resign c. 215 BC due to ill-health, and he died c. 205 BC. Nothing survives of his works.

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Theodoros of Cyrene

First Name Theodoros
Born on January 1, -0465
Died on November 30, -0399 (aged 65)

Theodorus of Cyrene was an ancient Libyan Greek and lived during the 5th century BC. The only first-hand accounts of him that survive are in three of Plato's dialogues: the Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Statesman. In the former dialogue, he posits a mathematical theorem now known as the Spiral of Theodorus.

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Ister of Cyrene

First Name Ister
Born on January 1, -0250 (age 2275)

Istros the Callimachean was a Greek writer, pupil of Callimachus, and active in the Library of Alexandria.

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