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Gold plaque from a diadem (Geometric period 1050-950 BC), excavated at Palaipaphos 28 Limestone sphinx (550-500 BC), excavated at Tamassos Gold bracelet with Egyptian scarab (700-500 BC), excavated at Kition Terracotta model of a ship with captain and sailors (Cypro-Archaic period 600-480 BC), probably found in the sea, near Amathus Persian Wars (499-450 BC) forced most of the Cypriot kings to take sides with Greece in a tense Mediterranean atmosphere that was not resolved until Alexander the Great conquered Persia in 330 BC. In about 300 BC, the Macedonian king of Egypt Ptolemy I Soter abolished the Cypriot kingdoms and made Cyprus part of his own empire. Despite regional particularities, the institution of Cypriot kingship remained a homogeneous and successful institution to the end of the 4th century BC. Its abolition was an externally enforced action that was meant to serve the colonial politics of the newly founded Ptolemaic empire.
Cyprus in the Age of Empires Hellenistic and Roman periods, 310 BC-AD 330 With the abolition of Cypriot kingdoms, Cyprus became fully a part of the expansive Greek world. It was the age of Hellenism, the era following the conquests of Alexander the Great, when Greek power and influence was at its height. Under the rule of Ptolemaic Egypt, whose pharaohs were the Greek successors of Alexander the Great, Greek culture spread on Cyprus. The Greek alphabet replaced the old Cypriot syllabary, and images of gods become more definitively Greek in style. With its copper mines, wheat fields, olive groves, and vineyards, Cyprus was a treasure that Ptole- Marble statue of Aphrodite (Roman period, 30 BC-AD 330), excavated at Salamis Glass bowl (Hellenistic period, 310-30 BC), excavated at Tombs of the Kings, Paphos maic Egypt exploited to the full. But conflicts within the vast territories that Alexander conquered eventually eroded the Hellenistic world. Alexander’s empire soon became part of the growing Roman Empire, and Cyprus was annexed in 58 BC. The island prospered under the Romans, although Rome exacted a heavy price in taxes and exports, while adding monumental buildings and grand villas to the Cypriot landscape. Greek culture, however, persisted – in Greek institutions, theaters, religion, language, and art. A good system of Roman roads was built, linking cities together and the more remote areas to harbors, enabling Cypriot products –timber, wine, oil, grain and copper– to be transported easily to ports. In A.D. 45, the apostle Paul, accompanied by Barnabas, a native of Cyprus, traveled to Cyprus to preach the gospel, making Cyprus the first Roman province to be Christianized. At Nea Paphos, they converted the Roman Proconsul Sergius Paulus. Byzantine Cyprus AD 330-1200 In AD 330 the Roman Empire was divided into East and West. Cyprus became part of the Eastern Empire, ruled from the city of Byzantium (later called Constantinople). It was a peaceful, prosperous province of the new state. Christianity quickly took hold near the great sanctuaries at Paphos, Amathus, and Salamis, as powerful bishops built large basil- 29
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