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Cyrenaic
Cyrenaic Cyr`e*na"ic (s?r`?-n?"?k or s?`r?-), a. [L. Cyrenaicus, fr. Cyrene, in Libya.] Pertaining to Cyrenaica, an ancient country of northern Africa, and to Cyrene, its principal city; also, to a school of philosophy founded by Aristippus, a native of Cyrene. -- n. A native of Cyrenaica; also, a disciple of the school of Aristippus. See Cyrenian, n.

Meaning of Cyrenaic from wikipedia

- The Cyrenaics or Kyrenaics (Ancient Gr****: Κυρηναϊκοί, romanized: Kyrēnaïkoí), were a sensual hedonist Gr**** school of philosophy founded in the 4th century...
- c. 356 BCE) was a hedonistic Gr**** philosopher and the founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy. He was a pupil of Socrates, but adopted a different...
- represent the first recorded advocacy of a hedonistic philosophy. The Cyrenaics were a hedonist Gr**** school of philosophy founded in the 4th century...
- Greco-Roman Presocratic Ionians Pythagoreans Eleatics Atomists Sophists Cyrenaics Cynicism Eretrian school Megarian school Academy Peripatetic school ****enistic...
- philosopher of the Cyrenaic school. He lived in both Greece and Alexandria, before ending his days in his native city of Cyrene. As a Cyrenaic philosopher,...
- Greco-Roman Presocratic Ionians Pythagoreans Eleatics Atomists Sophists Cyrenaics Cynicism Eretrian school Megarian school Academy Peripatetic school ****enistic...
- Africa—though less tasty. Dioscorides, in the first century, wrote, "the Cyrenaic kind, even if one just tastes it, at once arouses a humour throughout the...
- The Cyrenaic and Carthaginian coins of Corvo are a ****d of coins dating to approximately 200 BCE that were supposedly left in the Azores by Carthaginians...
- Cynic Antisthenes Diogenes Crates Menippus more... Cyrenaic Aristippus Aristippus the Younger Theodorus the Atheist Hegesias of Cyrene Anniceris more....
- Greco-Roman Presocratic Ionians Pythagoreans Eleatics Atomists Sophists Cyrenaics Cynicism Eretrian school Megarian school Academy Peripatetic school ****enistic...