GREEK GODS AND HEROES IN ANCIENT CYPRUS

In English (also available in Greek). Cloth, 30x23 cm, 334 pp., ill.: 237 images; net weight 2160 gr.

From as early as the prehistoric period, Cyprus played an important role in the Mediterranean area, as an economic centre and as a cultural crossroads. This book is not confined to religion and religious traditions. The author uses a large number of excavation finds and literary and epigraphic sources to record the history of Cyprus over the centuries, and the influences to which it was subjected by the peoples of the Mediterranean and the Near East.

CONTENTS:

IMMIGRANTS, GODS AND HEROES - AEGEAN SEA MEETS THE EAST - THE BACKGROUND - MYTHOLOGICAL IMAGES IN MYCENEAN POTTERY FROM CYPRUS AND UGARIT - THE GREEKS SETTLE IN CYPRUS - YOUNG GODS AND GODDESSES - GREEK GODS AND HEROES IN CYPRUS - THE INFLUENCE OF GREEK EPIC AND ITS LOCAL ADAPTATION (10th - 7th ce. B.C.) - THE GREEK HERACLES - GREEK GODS AND HEROES AND THE CYPRIOT HERCULES - GREEK GODS AND HEROES ON CYPRIOT COINS - THE GREEK PRESENCE IN CYPRUS DURING THE HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN ERAS: GODS AND HEROES - OTHER SECONDARY DIVINITIES AND HEROES - GREEK GODS AND HEROES IN MOSAIC FLOORING: I. NEW PAPHOS - II. PALAIPAPHOS - III. COURION - IV. ALASSA - V. SALAMIS // BIBLIOGRAPHY - INDEX.

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