Cariddi argues that there is a need to re-assess the theory that the changes in land-usage visible at Cyrene were coincident with the ‘universal earthquake’ of AD 365. Recent data allow more precision regarding the reconstruction of areas struck by earthquakes, especially in the area of the agora and gymnasium following the first seismic event in the third century AD and that (or those) of the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth centuries AD. In the second half of third century AD the agora is re-functioned and public spaces begin to be occupied by habitations and workshops, with some ruralisation; subsequently there is almost total destruction of the same quarter after another earthquake between the end of fourth and beginning of fifth centuries AD. The date for this earthquake is now more likely the 380s.
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