Cyrene (mythology)

Cyrene
Cyrene depicted on a mosaic of the 2nd century CE
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Parents	Chlidanope and Hypseus
Consort	Apollo
Offspring	Aristaeus, Autuchus and Idmon

Cyrene (Latin) or Kyrene (Greek: Κῡρήνη, Kyrḗnē), pronounced variously as /saɪˈriːni/ sy-REE-nee or /kaɪˈriːni/ ky-REE-nee, was a figure in Greek mythology considered the etymon of the Greek colony of Cyrene in eastern Libya in North Africa. She was said to have been a Thessalian princess who became the queen of Cyrene, founded and named in her honor by Apollo.^[1] The story is entirely apocryphal, the city having been founded by settlers from Thera.