1. Birth at Cyrene

    · Cyrene, Cyrenaica, Libya

    Birth at Cyrene
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    Eratosthenes was born at Cyrene, the Greek city in Cyrenaica from which his conventional epithet derives. The conventional birth year is disputed in some modern reconstructions; coordinates identify the archaeological site of ancient Cyrene.

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