Cyrene Explained

Cyrene may refer to:

Antiquity

• Cyrene (mythology), an ancient Greek mythological figure
• Cyrene, Libya, an ancient Greek colony in North Africa (modern Libya)
  • Crete and Cyrenaica, a province of the Roman Empire
  • Cyrenaica, the region around the city
  • Cyrenaics, an ancient Greek school of philosophy

Modern-day places

• Cyrene, Georgia, a community in the United States
• Cyrene, Missouri, a community in the United States

Games and TV fiction

• Cyrene (Xena: Warrior Princess), a fictional character in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess
• Cyrene (Creative Kingdom), a setting in the online game Entropia Universe

Ships

• Cyrene (steamboat), a steamboat that ran on Puget Sound and Lake Washington, 1891–1912
• , a sailing frigate of the Royal Navy, sold in 1828 at Bombay
• , a 1944 United States Navy motor torpedo boat tender

Science

• 133 Cyrene, an asteroid
• a synonym for Nycerella, a genus of spiders
• Cyrene, a trade name for dihydrolevoglucosenone

See also

• Cyren (disambiguation)
• Kyrene School District, a K-8 school district in Maricopa County, Arizona