Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Cyrene.
The gallery
Cyrene and Cattle
Edward Calvert, c. 1830s–1840s
Calvert's pastoral panel shows Apollo's Thessalian lover at rest among her father's cattle — the hunting nymph of Peneus whom the god would carry to Libya and who bore him Aristaeus, the keeper of bees and herds in Apollonius' Argonautica.
Mosaic of the nymph Cyrene
Unknown (Roman, Lambaesis), 2nd–3rd century AD
A North African floor mosaic from Lambaesis names Cyrene as a nymph — a provincial image of the Libyan figure Apollo set among the western nymphs, the same country that received her after the abduction from Haemonia.