Across history, the goddess Aphrodite has remained a prominent figure of beauty and love, and many statues have been built in ...

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

In Cyprus, an EOKA fighter (against the British Administration), Kyriakoulis, is imprisoned by the British. His comrades kidnap the son of a friend of the British Administrator in retaliation.

and the island’s popular traditions. “The figures of Phidylé, Mignon, Sappho and Ondine, along with the Cypriot maiden, are connected through the metaphorical presence of Aphrodite,” say ...