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Kyrene School District is a public K-8 school district in Arizona, serving parts of Tempe, Chandler, Guadalupe, and Phoenix. It has 26 schools, including 19 elementary, 6 middle, and 1 online school, and was founded in 1888.
Cyrene or Kyrene was a Thessalian princess and a huntress who became the queen of Cyrene in Libya, founded by Apollo. She was the mother of Aristaeus, Idmon and Autuchus by Apollo, and a nymph transformed by him.
Theodorus of Cyrene was a 5th century BC Greek mathematician who proved that the square roots of some numbers are irrational. He is known for his theorem, his spiral construction, and his possible connection to Plato and Protagoras.
Cyrene was a city in northeastern Libya, founded by colonists from Thera in the seventh century BC. It was part of the Pentapolis and the Cyrenaica region, and had a rich cultural and historical heritage, including temples, theatres, and a school of philosophy.
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 ...
Ahwatukee is an urban village of Phoenix, Arizona, with a population of over 83,000. Learn about its origins, from a ranch house named Casa de Sueños to a truck proving ground, and how it became part of Phoenix in 1987.
The Cyrenaics were founded by Aristippus of Cyrene, a pupil of Socrates, and taught that pleasure is the only good in life. They had a skeptical theory of knowledge and a practical ethics of social obligation and altruism.
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.