Editing Cyrene, Libya (section)

==Philosophy==
Cyrene contributed to the intellectual life of the Greeks, through renowned philosophers and mathematicians. The School of Cyrene, known as the [[Cyrenaics]], developed here as a minor [[Socratic method|Socratic]] school founded by [[Aristippus]] (perhaps the friend of [[Socrates]], though according to some accounts a grandson of Aristippus with the same name). French Neo-Epicurean philosopher [[Michel Onfray]] has called Cyrene "a philosophical Atlantis" thanks to its huge importance in the birth and initial development of the ethics of pleasure.