The Reception of Ancient Cyprus in Western Culture
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Edited by:
Spyridon Tzounakas
About this book
The reception of ancient Cyprus in the Western world has not received much attention in scholarship, despite the fact that significant literary and extra-literary evidence presented by European intellectuals and artists explicitly or implicitly refers to the history of Cyprus, as well as to the myths and art produced on it or inspired by its landscape. This is a neglect that this volume wishes to address, by re-establishing the literary thread of the representation of ancient Cyprus beyond generic, spatial and temporal limits, and by thus shedding light on its depiction throughout the centuries, from the ancient Roman to the Western world up until modern times. The volume’s central thesis is that a number of Cypriot traditions constitute a unique example of intercultural and multi-level fusions of diverse European civilizations. By investigating the various and often contradictory ways in which Cyprus was represented in Latin literature and beyond, the volume treats its multifaceted reception as a vastly complex matter, and suggests that even though the island has always been an outlier, it has often been explored in literature as an intellectual landscape and a precious pathway between at times conflictual yet compatible worlds.
Author / Editor information
Stella Alekou, Univ. of Ioannina, Greece; Spyridon Tzounakas, Univ. of Cyprus, Nicosia; Stephen Harrison, Univ. of Oxford, UK.
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Part I: Cyprus in Latin Literature
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Part II: Cyprus after Antiquity
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