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Updated: June 22, 2025
This hero of the "Cypria," was he, in verity the great High Priest of the island and chief of the stately race of the Cinyradæ who had ruled the people long in State and Sanctuary, and filled their realm with stately temples? The Cypriotes drew breath in an atmosphere of myth and poetry and felt the recital of the feats of their heroes to be no less a duty than a delight.
Recent discoveries as to the very early date of linear non- Phoenician writing in Crete of course increase the probability of this opinion, which is corroborated by the story of the Cypria, given as a dowry with the author's daughter.
'Venus ruled here with Alexander; Mars with Julius; now Pallas enters on her reign with Leo. To this epigram the goldsmith Antonio di San Marco answered with one pithy line: Mars fuit; est Pallas; Cypria semper ero: 'Mars reigned; Pallas reigns; Venus' own I shall always be. This first Pope of the house of Medici enjoyed at Rome the fame of his father Lorenzo the Magnificent at Florence.
Herself, the gentle Cypria, Illumined by her fiery crown, Then stands before her full-grown son Unveiled as great Urania; The sooner only by him caught, The fairer he had fled away! Thus stood, in wonder rapture-fraught, Ulysses' noble son that day, When the sage mentor who his youth beguiled; Herself transfigured as Jove's glorious child!
For the mother's part we have several matrons to choose from; the eldest daughter of Epitropes appears to me fitted for the part of Aphrodite; she is wonderfully lovely." "Is she stupid too?" asked Euergetes. "That is also an attribute of the ever-smiling Cypria." "Enough so, I think, for our purpose," laughed Cleopatra. "But where are we to find such a Hebe as you have described, Lysias?
For this reason the Iliad and the Odyssey each furnish the subject of one tragedy, or, at most, of two; while the Cypria supplies materials for many, and the Little Iliad for eight the Award of the Arms, the Philoctetes, the Neoptolemus, the Eurypylus, the Mendicant Odysseus, the Laconian Women, the Fall of Ilium, the Departure of the Fleet.
The work of perversion began, we know, in the eighth century before our era, when, by the author of the Cypria, these favourite heroes of Homer, Odysseus and Diomede, were represented as scoundrels, assassins, and cowards. He makes the Achaean fleet muster in "the port of Athens," of all places. Even Ovid gave the Homeric trysting- place, Aulis, in Boeotia.
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