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| | Make Love, Make War: the Fate of Cyprus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | She appears in many forms in graves and sanctuaries all over Cyprus, sometimes with upraised arms in the Cretan fashion, sometimes with the head of a bird, sometimes naked and sometimes covered with jewels, sometimes in childbirth.. |
| | Cyprus, her birthplace, would be remembered through the centuries, whatever sufferings might befall its inhabitants, as the Island of Love -- its name, said Edward Gibbon, "excites the ideas of elegance and pleasure." The Elizabethan playwright Thomas Dekker has one of his heroines say, ".'tis the fashion of us Cypriotes to yield at first assault." |
| | It was a network of hundreds of little villages, huddled around their domed Byzantine churches or the minarets of their mosques, communities of peasants bound economically and emotionally to the little plots of land which had belonged to their forebears since time immemorial, the place where thy were born and where they would die. |
| www.robertwernick.com /articles/cyprus.shtml (4798 words) |
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