the place of cyrene within the poem has implications beyond the level of content, for if her narrative is to be connected to the city of cyrene in libya, the "terminus post quem" for the composition of the "catalogue" would be 631 bc, the approximate year of that city's foundation. pindar, "pythian" 9 tells how apollo saw cyrene hunting in her native thessaly and was immediately enamored of the tomboy. the god goes to the cave of the wise centaur chiron and asks who she is and whether it would be wise to consort with her. chiron then prophesies that it is fated for cyrene and apollo to mate, and that he will bring her across the sea to libya, where she will be queen of a portion of the land and bear to him a son, aristaeus. a scholium on the ode states that "pindar took the story from an ehoie of hesiod's" () and relates the opening lines of the section ("cat". fr. 215):