Pentapolis

So they are saying the Alexandrian Church, uh, has authority over, probably we could s- because they do not say what kind of, what kind of territory Alexandrian Church has.

But probably this was the Egypt, Libya, and Pentapolis.

Antioch, probably Diocese of the East.

So, uh, the pa- the, the Antioch, Palestine, um, and the Rome, probably the supra-metropolitan authority of the bishop of Rome as the, the me- metropolitan or as, as a patriarch, we would say, like in, uh...

By 500 BC, they likely held something like 100,000 Greek speakers, with a much larger surrounding Libyan population.

Cyrene itself controlled a confederation of five smaller coastal cities, known later as the Pentapolis, and exported silphium.

This is a now extinct medicinal plant that was worth roughly its weight in silver to Greek and later Roman buyers.

Egypt, meanwhile, had its own Greek population centered on the trading port of Naukratis in the Nile Delta.

Act II.

Scene V. Pentapolis.

A room in the palace.

Enter Simonides, reading a letter at one door.

Immortal Dian.

Now I know you better.

When we with tears parted Pentapolis, the king my father gave you such a

ring.