This volume focuses on the architectural development of the sanctuary
from its foundation in the late seventh century B.C. to the end of the
pre-Imperial Roman phase (31 B.C.). The main periods of sanctuary
architecture treated in the volume took shape in the shadow of major
historical events of Cyrene, from its colonial foundation and through
its rapid expansion under the Battiad monarchs, and its eventual
struggle with Persian-occupied Egypt. This is followed by Cyrene's
tumultuous and as yet poorly understood fifth century, and its loss of
independence under the Ptolemies.
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