Myth into art: foreign impulses and local responses in archaic Cypriot sanctuaries

Author: Derek Counts, Professor Published in: The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean Year: 2015 More information

New Article by Professor Counts

Professor Derek Counts’ article “Myth into art: foreign impulses and local responses in archaic Cypriot sanctuaries” examines a series of sculptural representations of the triple-bodied monster “Geryon” (of Greek mythological fame) in Cypriot sanctuaries of the Archaic and Classical periods (ca. 750-325 BCE).