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Panos Christodoulou, « Les mythes fondateurs des royaumes chypriotes : le nostos de Teukros », Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes, ID : 10.3406/cchyp.2014.1547
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The foundation stories of the Cypriot kingdoms rarely predate the 5th century BC. They were, as a rule, constructed under specific political, social and cultural conditions in order to shape the way a community represented and remembered its past. In this study I draw attention to the fact that these foundation myths were the result of a complicated and dynamic process. Using the foundation myth of Salamis as my point of reference, and without denying that its origins contain an unmistakable kernel of truth, I attempt to follow its gradual transformation through time and to isolate new elements that were added later in order to serve specific political and social goals.