Cyrene (Κυρήνη) is the Greek word for "sovereign queen." The Thessalian princess and huntress who, when seen wrestling a lion bare-handed by Apollo, was carried by him to Libya — where she founded the city of Cyrene and became its first queen.
Featured in Pindar's Pythian Ode 9 and Callimachus's Hymn to Apollo.
Cyrene reduces to three — the number of Greek lion-wrestler.