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Amathus was built on the coastal cliffs with a natural harbor and flourished at an early date, soon requiring several cemeteries.
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Amathus () was one of the most ancient royal cities of Cyprus, on the southern coast in front of Agios Tychonas, about 24 miles west of Larnaca and 6 miles east of Limassol.
Its ancient cult of Aphrodite was the most important, after Paphos, in Cyprus, her homeland, though the ruins of Amathus are less well-preserved than neighboring Kourion.
More purely Hellenic myth would have Amathus settled instead by one of the sons of Heracles, thus accounting for the fact that he was worshiped there.
It was said in antiquity that the people of Amathus were autochthonous, or " Pelasgian ".
It certainly maintained strong Phoenician sympathies, for it was its refusal to join the philhellene league of Onesilos of Salamis which provoked the revolt of Cyprus from Achaemenid Persia in 500-494BC, when Amathus was besieged unsuccessfully and avenged itself by the capture and execution of Onesilos.
About 385-380 BC the philhellene Evagoras of Salamis was similarly opposed by Amathus, in conjunction with Citium and Soli ; and even after Alexander the city resisted annexation, and was bound over to give hostages to Seleucus.
The wealth of Amathus was derived partly from its grain partly from its sheep and copper mines, of which traces can be seen inland.
Amathus was a rich and densely populated kingdom with a flourishing agriculture and mines situated very close to the northeast Kalavasos.
In the late sixth century, Ayios Ioannis Eleimonas ( Saint John the Charitable ), protector of the Knights of St. John, was born in Amathus.
Amathus still flourished and produced a distinguished patriarch of Alexandria, St. John the Merciful, as late as 606-616, and a ruined Byzantine church marks the site ; but it declined and was already almost deserted when Richard Plantagenet won Cyprus by a victory there over Isaac Comnenus in 1191.
Limassol was built between two ancient cities, Amathus and Kourion, so during Byzantine rule it was known as Neapolis ( new town ).
Limassol was probably built after Amathus had been ruined.
Alcmaeon had given these jewels to Phegeus, who had his sons kill Alcmaeon when he discovered Alcmaeon's plan: thus lest the curse be transmitted to a next generation it was dedicated to Aphrodite at Amathus in Cyprus.
A relic was being shown in Amathus in Cyprus, in the time of Pausanias ( 2nd century CE ):
An ancient cult of Aphrodite-Ariadne was observed at Amathus, Cyprus, according to the obscure Hellenistic mythographer Paeon of Amathus ; Paeon's works are lost, but his narrative is among the sources cited by Plutarch in his vita of Theseus ( 20. 3 -. 5 ).
According to the myth that was current at Amathus, the second most important Cypriote cult centre of Aphrodite, Theseus ' ship was swept off-course and the pregnant and suffering Ariadne put ashore in the storm.
So these councils governed the people ; the first was at Jerusalem, the second at Gadara, the third at Amathus, the fourth at Jericho, and the fifth at Sepphoris in Galilee.
He was born at Amathus.
Following resistance from the kings of Kition, Amathus and Soli, who fled to the great king of Persia in 390 BC to request support, Evagoras received less help from the Athenians than he had hoped for and in about 380 BCE, a Persian force besieged Salamis and Evagoras was forced to surrender.
Amathus and on
The site of the ruins is within the borders of this village, though the expansion of the Limassol tourist area has threatened the ruins: it is speculated that some of the hotels are on top of the Amathus necropolis.
The ten kingdoms listed by an inscription of Esarhaddon in 673 / 2 BC have been identified as Salamis, Kition, Amathus, Kourion, Paphos and Soli on the coast and Tamassos, Ledra, Idalium and Chytri in the interior.
Edmund Cueva has argued that Chariton also depended on Plutarch's vita of Theseus for thematic material, or perhaps directly on one of Plutarch's sources, an obscure mythographer, Paion of Amathus.
He is best known for composing a very large compendium of the heresies up to his own time, full of quotations that are often the only surviving fragments of suppressed texts, and for instigating, with Tychon ( Bishop of Amathus ), a persecution against the non-Christians living on Cyprus, and the destruction of most of their temples.
The ten kingdoms listed by an inscription of Esarhaddon in 673 – 2 BCE have been identified as Soloi, Salamis, Paphos, Kourion, Amathus and Kition on the coast, and Tamassos, Ledrai, Idalion and Chytroi in the interior of the island.
Amathus and coastal
They have been found in some of the larger coastal cities as well, including Paphos, Curium and Amathus.
Amathus and with
Amathus is identified with Kartihadasti ( Phoenician " New-Town ") in the Cypriote tribute-list of Esarhaddon of Assyria ( 668 B. C .).
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Greeks from Euboea left their pottery at Amathus from the tenth century BC.
In reading the account, the primitive aspect of the cult at Amathus would appear to be much older than the Athenian-sanctioned shrine of Aphrodite, who has assumed Ariadne ( hagne, " sacred ") as an epithet at Amathus.
* 57 – 55 BCE: Aulus Gabinius, proconsul of Syria, split the former Hasmonean Kingdom into five districts of legal and religious councils known as sanhedrin based at Jerusalem, Sepphoris ( Galilee ), Jericho, Amathus ( Perea ) and Gadara.
Amathus and early
In the 1870s Luigi Palma di Cesnola carried out excavations in the necropolis of Amathus, as elsewhere in Cyprus, enriching the early collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ; some objects went to the British Museum.
Amathus and .
The pre-history of Amathus mixes myth and archaeology.
Much later, in 1869, a great number of blocks of stone from Amathus were used for the construction of the Suez Canal.
A new settlement close to Amathus but further inland, Agios Tychonas, is named after the bishop Saint Tychon of Amathus.
Limassol's tourist strip now runs east along the coast as far as Amathus.
According to the Council of Chalcedon which took place in 451, the local bishop as well as the bishops of Amathus and Arsinoe were involved in the foundation of the city, which would be known by the names of Theodosiana and Neapolis.
Richard destroyed Amathus and the inhabitants were transferred to Limassol.
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It was pierced by a wagon gate built of two wings.
The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.
He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.
It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.
At Camp Taylor in Kentucky a barracks was built in an hour and a half from timber that had been standing in Mississippi forests one week before.
He was then a slightly built young man of pleasing appearance, medium stature, and handsome face.
This was one of the Irish women who had built their own huts down near the river.
It was built by the Pasterns, and stands on the acre of ground that adjoins our property.
Actually an underground cistern, its roof supported by rows and rows of pillars, it was built by Justinian in the Sixth Century to supply the palace with water.
A month later the General Court served notice to the town of Newbury that the bridge was to be built.
The Essex Merrimack Bridge when first built was not covered.
This was built by John Templeman from plans submitted by James Finley of Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
Completed and opened for traffic in 1852, the bridge was designed and built by Lemuel Chenoweth and his brother, Eli, of Beverly.
No house was ever built that could not have been built better for less if the work had been better planned and the work better scheduled.
As I was playing Mother Cabrini, the picture was actually `` all mine '', with nearly every scene built around me.
Although the tape was run for over 1 hr., a steady state was not reached, and it was concluded that the reason for this was that the back pressure of the manometer was built up from the material fed from between the blocks and this was available at a very slow rate.
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