Contents
Volume LII, No 4, October-December 2014
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A quarterly cultural review of the Ministry of Education and
Culture published and distributed by the Press and Information
Office (PIO), Ministry of Interior, Nicosia, Cyprus.
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Pavlos Paraskevas,
Director of Cultural Services,
Ministry of Education and Culture
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Front cover:
Scene from
Homer’s Iliad
, directed by
Stathis Livathinos, which was performed at KYPRIA2014
International Festival
Back cover:
Exhibit from the photography exhibition
Cyprus
at the turn of the 20
th
century
by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural
Foundation and the Historical and Ethnological Society of
Greece
PIO 238/2014 - 7.000
ISSN (print) 0045-9429
ISSN (online) 1986-2547
Editorial..........................................................................................2
Axiothea Festival...........................................................................3
KYPRIA.......................................................................................18
GoddessAphrodite......................................................................24
Stelios Votsis................................................................................28
Perfume of Cyprus.......................................................................29
Treasure Island.............................................................................30
Cyprus at the turn of the 20
th
.......................................................35
Glyn Hughes................................................................................37
Digital Corpus..............................................................................38
Unknown history.........................................................................40
Europa Nostra..............................................................................50
Arshak Sarkissian........................................................................51
I am not the cancer.......................................................................54
Soprano Tereza Gevorgyan.........................................................58
This is Italy...................................................................................59
Short Matters................................................................................60
