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Kyrene School District is a K-8 school district that serves parts of Tempe, Chandler, Guadalupe, and Phoenix, Arizona, as well as portions of the Gila River Indian Community within Maricopa County. Kyrene School District operates a total of 26 schools, consisting of nineteen elementary schools, six middle schools and one online school.
Cyrene and Cattle by Edward Calvert, 1830s or 1840s. Cyrene or Kyrene (Greek: Κῡρήνη, Kyrḗnē), pronounced variously as / s aɪ ˈ r iː n i / sy-REE-nee or / k aɪ ˈ r iː n i / ky-REE-nee, was a figure in Greek mythology considered the etymon of the Greek colony of Cyrene in eastern Libya in North Africa.
Theodorus of Cyrene (Greek: Θεόδωρος ὁ Κυρηναῖος, translit. Theódōros ho Kyrēnaîos; fl.c. 450 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician. 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 ...
K-8 public school students in the area attend schools operated by the Kyrene School District. [29] In fact, Ahwatukee-based schools constitute 12 out of 25 (48%) of Kyrene's schools. [30] High school students go to one of two in the area: Desert Vista and Mountain Pointe. Both schools are operated by the Tempe Union High School District
Cyrene, also sometimes anglicized as Kyrene, was an ancient Greek colony and Roman city near present-day Shahhat in northeastern Libya in North Africa. It was part of the Pentapolis, an important group of five cities in the region, and gave the area its classical and early modern name Cyrenaica. Cyrene lies on a ridge of the Jebel Akhdar uplands.
Among the spurious Socratic epistles (dating perhaps from the 1st century) there is a fictitious letter from Aristippus addressed to Arete. [5]John Augustine Zahm (writing under the pseudonym of Mozans), claimed that the 14th century scholar Giovanni Boccaccio had access to some "early Greek writers," which allowed Boccaccio to give special praise to Arete "for the breadth and variety of her ...
Aristippus of Cyrene. The Cyrenaics or Kyrenaics (Ancient Greek: Κυρηναϊκοί, romanized: Kyrēnaïkoí), were a sensual hedonist Greek school of philosophy founded in the 4th century BCE, supposedly by Aristippus of Cyrene, although many of the principles of the school are believed to have been formalized by his grandson of the same name, Aristippus the Younger.
Magas as king of Cyrene, circa 282/75 to 261 BC. Rev: Palm tree and small silphium and crab symbols. Magas of Cyrene (Greek: Μάγας ὁ Κυρηναῖος; born before 317 BC – 250 BC, ruled 276 BC – 250 BC) was a Greek King of Cyrenaica. Through his mother’s second marriage to Ptolemy I he became a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty.