Athènes et Chypre à l’époque classique : Documents et remarques complémentaires
Journal: Cahiers du Centre d Etudes Chypriotes
Year: 2018

Dedicated to the memory of Jacqueline Karageorghis and Ino Nicolaou, this paper comments some iconographic and epigraphic documents concerning the relations between Athens and Cyprus during the Classical period. First, an Attic red‑figure stamnos, attributed to Polygnotos by Beazley (ca. 440). It is decorated with an Amazonomachy on which Theseus’ companion is called Rhoikos, a strange name which could be related to a contemporary king of Amathus. Second, an Attic chous from Kerch (Crimea), with