Theseus (Mosaic), World Cultural Heritage Issue, Republic of Cyprus

Theseus (Mosaic), World Cultural Heritage Issue, Republic of Cyprus

Postage stamps--Cyprus--History

Γραμματόσημα--Κύπρος--Ιστορία

The stamp depicts Theseus swinging a huge club. It forms the central part of the Theseus mosaic in the palace of the Roman proconsuls of Cyprus at Kato Paphos.The site is known as the house of Theseus and is dated bet ween the 2nd and 6th centuries A.D. Mythology relates how when Theseus had set out to free the bandit-r idden coast which led from Troezen to Athens, he was waylaid at Epidaurus by the cripple Periphetes who used his huge brazen club to kill wayfarers. Theseus who would pick no quarrels, but take vengeance on all who dared molest him, making the punishment fit the crime, wrenched the club from Periphetes’ hands and battered him to death.Delighted with its size and weight, he proudly carried it about ever af ter wards; though he himself had been able to parry its murderous swing, in his hands it never failed to kill. (Extract from: The Greek Myths, Vol.1, p.304)

Cyprus Post, Republic of Cyprus

Κυπριακά Ταχυδρομεία, Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία

Cyprus Post, Republic of Cyprus

Κυπριακά Ταχυδρομεία, Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία

Library of Cyprus University of Technology

Digital Heritage Research Lab of Cyprus University of Technology

5th July 1982

Designer: A. Tassos

Απαγορεύεται η δημοσίευση ή αναπαραγωγή, ηλεκτρονική ή άλλη χωρίς τη γραπτή συγκατάθεση του δημιουργού.

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1982-CULTURAL-225M

35.160417, 33.346556

Aspioti - Elka, Athens