. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. erof Gyrene, 631, and who gradually gained possession of thewhole coast, erecting, in addition to Cyrene, Apollonia which servedas its port, Teuchira and Hesperides on the coast of the Syrtis, andBarca about 12 miles from the X. coast. These five formed theoriginal Pentapolis. Under the Ptolemies, various changes tookplace : the name of Hesperides was supplanted by that of Berenice,and Teuchira by Arsinoe. Barca sank and its port assumed itsposition under the name of Ptolemais : Cyrene als
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. erof Gyrene, 631, and who gradually gained possession of thewhole coast, erecting, in addition to Cyrene, Apollonia which servedas its port, Teuchira and Hesperides on the coast of the Syrtis, andBarca about 12 miles from the X. coast. These five formed theoriginal Pentapolis. Under the Ptolemies, various changes tookplace : the name of Hesperides was supplanted by that of Berenice,and Teuchira by Arsinoe. Barca sank and its port assumed itsposition under the name of Ptolemais : Cyrene also waned beforethe growing prosperity of its port Apollonia. Henceforward thePentapolis consisted of the cities of Cyrene, Apollonia, Ptolemais, 0 2 292 CYEEXAICA. Book HI. Arsinoe, and Berenice. The country continued to flourisli underthe Eomans until the time of Trajan, when the Jews who hadsettled there in large numbers under the Ptolemies, rose and mas-sacred the Eomans and Cyrena?ans. From this time it declined,and the ruin of the Greek towns was completed by the PersianChosroes in Kuins of Ptolemais, the porr of Barca. (From Hamilton.) Taking the towns in order from E. to W., we first meet with Apol-lonia, originally only the ^^ort of Cyrene, but afterwards the moreimportant town of the two : it was the birthplace of Eratosthenes, thegeographer. Its site at JIarsa SousaJi is marked by the splendid ruinsof several temples, the citadel, a theatre, and an aqueduct. Cyrene,founded by colonists from Thera.^ stood on the edge of the upper of s The foundation of Cyrene is described in the follo^ing lines, Calliste beingthe-poetical designation of Thera : the city is dignified with the title divine,and its tutulary goddess represented as seated on a golden throne :—Kac. Aa/ce5at- H9e<TLV, ev nore KaA- XicTTOv oLTTcoK-rjcrav xp6vD. Fyfh. ir. 457. In Chap. XVI. TOWXS. 293
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