Editing Cyrene, Libya (section)

==Name==
{{lang|la|Cyrene}} is the [[latinization of names|latinized]] form of the [[ancient Greek language|Greek]] name {{translit|grc|Kȳrḗnē}} ({{lang|grc|Κυρήνη}}) of uncertain origin. The Greeks themselves [[folk etymology|attributed the name]] to the legendary [[Thessaly|Thessalian]] princess [[Cyrene (mythology)|Cyrene]] who supposedly founded the city with help from the [[sun god]] [[Apollo]].{{sfn|Kenrick|2013|p=200}} Some modern scholars sometimes attribute the name to its [[spring (hydrology)|spring]] Cyra ({{lang|grc|Κύρα}}, {{translit|grc|Kýra}}), which was considered sacred to Apollo by the city's Greco-Roman inhabitants.<ref name=janky/> The legend of Thessalian Cyrene seems to long predate attestation of the spring, however, and [[Richard Janko|Janko]] instead suggests that the existing legend and name were adopted by the early Theran settlers for this specific location after some unattested but similar local  name in the [[Libu]] or [[Garamantes|Garamantian]] language.<ref name=janky>{{citation |last=Janko |first=Richard |title=Homer, Hesiod, and the Hymns: Diachronic Development in Epic Diction |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=[[Cambridge, England|Cambridge]] |date=1982 |page=247, n. 38 }}.</ref> Although both the Greek and Latin forms of the name were pronounced something like {{IPAc-en|k|u|ˈ|r|eɪ|n|eɪ}} {{respell|koo|RAY|nay}},<ref>{{citation |last= |first= |title=Strong's Concordance |contribution-url=https://biblehub.com/greek/2957.htm |contribution=2957. Kuréné |publisher= |location= |date= }}.</ref> they are more often read in English as {{IPAc-en|k|aɪ|ˈ|r|iː|n|i}} {{respell|ky|REE|nee}} or, in its Latin form, {{IPAc-en|s|aɪ|ˈ|r|iː|n|i}} {{respell|sy|REE|nee}}.{{fact|date=March 2024}}