🪷#Antinous as a #Sacerdote #Roman Priest found in #Cyrene #Libya 2.1 m tall (6 ft, 7 in). #BonAnniversaire le musée du Louvre 🎉#CeJourLà en 1793, Louvre ouvrait ses portes au public! 🎉Happy #birthday to #museelouvre On 10 Aug 1793 the #Louvre opened its doors to the public. 🪷

Callimachus of Cyrene (l. c. 310-c. 240 BCE) was a poet and scholar associated with the Library of Alexandria and best known for his Pinakes ("Tablets"), a bibliographic catalog of Greek literature, his poetry, and his literary aesthetic which rejected the epic in favor of shorter works and influenced the later development of Roman literature. #History #GreekLiterature #Cyrene #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/Callimachus_of_Cyrene/

Silphium (also known as laser) was an uncultivated plant that grew in Cyrene, North Africa (modern Shahhat, Libya) and became the cash crop of the region of Cyrenaica between c. https://www.worldhistory.org/Silphium/ #History #Cyrene #Silphium

Silphium (also known as laser) was an uncultivated plant that grew in Cyrene, North Africa (modern Shahhat, Libya) and became the cash crop of the region of Cyrenaica between c. 631 BCE and the 1st century CE when, according to Pliny the Elder, it had become extinct. #History #Silphium #Cyrene #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/Silphium/

The Cyrenaics were a philosophical school of thought founded c. 4th century BCE by Aristippus of Cyrene (l. c. 435-356 BCE) who taught that sensual pleasure was the highest good and only worthwhile pursuit in life. #History #Philosophy #Epicurus #Cyrene #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/Cyrenaics/

The Foundation Decree of Cyrene (c. 322 BCE) is a covenant between the citizens of Cyrene in North Africa in the 4th century BCE and those of their mother-state of Thera granting any who wish to become Cyrenean citizens the same rights and freedoms as those who settled the colony in 631 BCE. #History #Thera #Cyrene #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/Foundation_Decree_of_Cyrene/

Cyrene (modern-day Shahhat, Libya) was a vital cultural center and port of trade in North Africa founded in 631 BCE by Greek colonists from the island of Thera. #History #Cyrene #Berbers #UNESCO #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/cyrene/