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Олимпийские игры в политике, повседневной жизни и культуре (от античности до современности), 2021

The article deals with the questions on the origin and development of hellanodicai — magistracy w... more The article deals with the questions on the origin and development of hellanodicai — magistracy who were the judges of the Olympic contests and administrated the whole Olympic festival playing the key-role in that panhellenic event. The unique evidences of Pausanias (although conserved in not optimal conditions) can be supplemented by the data from other writers and give us the rule to point the main periods of development for this magistracy: the years of the Olympic games of 580, 478 and 472 B. C. These periods saw the consistent increase of the number of magistrates responsible for the administration of the Olympics and judgment, which fact corresponds with putting into shape and constitution of the Elean political control upon the panhellenic sanctuary and the Games in Olympia. As for the diminishment of the number of the Olympic judges, it should be explained as the result of territorial lost during unstable circumstances of the late classical age.

Problemy istorii, fi lologii, kul’tury, 2019

The accounts of the written sources on the sanctuary of Artemis Ephesia found by Xenophon in Scil... more The accounts of the written sources on the sanctuary of Artemis Ephesia found by Xenophon in Scillus permit us to include this singular event (described by its main actor as some particular episode of his life after his return from the Anabasis) into the more wide historical context of serious transformations in the political landscape of the North-Western Peloponnese in late 5th – fi rst third of the 4th century BC.
The foundation of a new sanctuary in Scillus (exempt from the power of the Elean territorial state at the result of the war between Elis and Sparta, 402-400 BC) was the way to establish in the region of Triphilia the Laconian-friendly political regime and to provide here the root to
Xenophon – the personal friend of the king Agesilaus – who at this place acquired the functions of Spartan proxenos. The new regular festival connected with the sanctuary of Artemis included ritualized hunting and the youth getting ready to became adult citizens participated in it, and the
children of Xenophon himself as well. All these actions created, developed and actualized new social connections and were not “private matter” in the strict sense of this word. After the Spartan defeat at Leuctra (371 BC) Xenophon and his family had to leave Scillus, and the historian was accused in the Olympic Council – the fact which provides us a reason to
deduce that the authority of this institution was not limited only by the questions of organization and administration of the Pan-Hellenic festival in Olympia, but it was also the key-instrument of Elean political hegemony in the North-West Peloponnese as the whole.

Aristeas. PHILOLOGIA CLASSICA ET HISTORIA ANTIQVA, 2022

The article contains short review of the papers presented at the international digital conference... more The article contains short review of the papers presented at the international digital conference which deals with Cyprus connectivity in the Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the 5th century B. C.

Античные культы в пределах полисов и империй: сборник статей по ито- гам Второго Всероссийского междисциплинарного научного семинара 20–21 июня 2020 года, г. Ярославль / Отв. ред. Е.С. Данилов. — Москва: Тропа, 2021., 2021

The fragment from Aristotele’s work (Fr. 526 Rose3) describing remarkable features of royal buria... more The fragment from Aristotele’s work (Fr. 526 Rose3) describing remarkable features of royal burial custom, dating back to the time of Trojan war, has been erroneously attributed to Crete and the Cretan politeia, while there are more reasons to attribute it to Cyprus and, consequently to the Cypriot politea. This correction, made in the edition of O. Gigon, has a great value for studying Cypriot kingship, because it derives some significant traits of royal burial custom from the epoch, when the Achaean immigrants familiarized themselves on the island, and it offers us to elucidate a number of archaeological realia dealing with royal burial and warrior culture of Cyprus during the time of city-kingdoms.

CLASSICAL CYPRUS Proceedings of the Conference University of Graz, 21–23 September 2017, 2020

Экономика, право, власть в древнем мире. Посвящается памяти В. И. Кузищина. СПб.: Алетейя, 2021., 2021

The article deals with the main issues of discussion in the actual research of the political stru... more The article deals with the main issues of discussion in the actual research of the political structure in pre-hellenistic Cyprus. It comprises two mutually connected questions: 1) the chronology and ways of state formation in Cyprus during the Early Iron Age and 2) the political, economic and social character of Cypriot city-kingdoms (or, to say more accurate, - polities), if they belonged to the world of Greek poleis or not. Both questions provoked intensive and fruitful polemics during recent 30 years, which resolution should bring us to more deep and comprehensive understanding not only for the history of ancient Cyprus, but for the concept of ancient polis in general.
The author supports the interpretation of Cypriot kingdoms as a specific form of polis, developed as the result of several particular factors (more continuity with Late Bronze Age traditions, more close relationship with Near Eastern powers, resource-type of political economy). The survival of royal power as a political regime in Cypriot states (what do not exclude the existence of polis as citizen entity) could create in long distance the effect of “sleeping institutions” which restarted to act and react in Hellenistic times.
Key-words:
Cyprus, Ancient Greek polis, royal power, state formation, polity, antiquity, historiography

МАИЭТ, 2019

This paper addresses the so-called amphorae with fine corrugation zones (globular amphorae), whic... more This paper addresses the so-called amphorae with fine corrugation zones (globular amphorae), which, along with the Black Sea amphorae with ribbed body, form up the largest group in the pottery complex from the Early Medieval towns and settlements in the Northern Black Sea Area. In the Mediterranean, globular amphorae appeared from the first decades of the seventh century (or even from the sixth century) to the late eighth or, plausibly, mid-ninth century at the latest. In the Northern Black Sea Area, the amphorae with fine corrugation zones are usually dated to the eighth century, with the final of their existence to the tenth or eleventh centuries, which is significantly different from the chronology of analogous ware in the Mediterranean. However, the new data in possession supplies the data to clarify the chronology. This paper addresses the assemblages usually attracted to argument the long existence of globular amphorae. Moreover, we address the complexes containing the amphorae of the Black Sea type with fine corrugation zones and grooved body excavated at Phanagoreia, which confirm the idea that they were not synchronous and that globular amphorae fell into disuse by the late ninth century.

The Journal of Ancient History, 2019

ΠΕΝΤΗΚΟΝΤΑΕΤΙΑ. Исследования по античной истории и культуре. Сборник, посвященный юбилею Игоря Евгеньевича Сурикова / Под ред. О. Л. Габелко, А. В. Махлаюка и А. А. Синицына. – СПб.: Издательство РХГА, 2018. – 464 с. : ил., [16] с. ил. ISBN 978-5-88812-887-9, 2018

P. A. Evdokimov The Cypriot Politeia of Aristotle and Royal Power in Cyprus There are just a fe... more P. A. Evdokimov
The Cypriot Politeia of Aristotle and Royal Power in Cyprus
There are just a few remained fragments of Aristotle's lost Cypriot politeia in the excerpts of later periods. It is worth noting, that all these extracts are anyway devoted to the problem of royal power (one explains the difference between the terms basileus and anax and another one gives some information concerning some particular personalities from the royal dynasty of Pafos); we should also take into account the one fragment from Politics, where he mentions a complot against Evagoras I the Salaminian.
Some interesting traits connect “political” works of Stagiritus with Cyprus: his friendship with Eudemus the Cypriot, the devotion of Protrepticus to Cypriot ruler Themison, Clearchus from Soloi as Aristotle's student in the Lyceum and Theophrastus, who also turned his attention to the phenomenon of royal power in Cyprus – not to mention Isocrates' Orationes and other facts of the late 5th – 4th centuries B. C. , which made the island closer to a number of Athenian intellectuals and politics of than time.
Both works of Aristotle devoted to megalonesoi (Crete and Cyprus) were named in a quite similar manner, i.e. Ton Cyprion politeia and Ton Creton politeia – that means that without going deep in the details and peculiarities connected with each individual polity, the author deals with common features of all the polities in these islands (seen from aside Cypriot polities looked much similar to each other, as like as Cretan ones did).
It is possible to suppose that it was namely the unique institute of royal power which attracted Aristotle's attention in Cyprus, so some general thoughts made in his Politics could be deduces by taking into account Cypriot political reality – and it is probably the passage where the Stagirite defines several types of royal power (Arist. Polit. ΙΙΙ. 12-14, 1285 b). When the philosopher deals with the royal power of the heroic times, it fits well to Cypriot realia known both from archaeological evidences and written tradition: military function of Cypriot kings as war-leaders, their close connection with cult (as king-priests in Pafos of elsewhere), scepters as signs of power, and especially important role as patrons of crafts (first of all mining bronze-production and metallworking).

Published in: ΠΕΝΤΗΚΟΝΤΑΕΤΙΑ. Исследования по античной истории и культуре. Сборник, посвященный юбилею Игоря Евгеньевича Сурикова / Под ред. О. Л. Габелко, А. В. Махлаюка и А. А. Синицына. – СПб.: Издательство РХГА, 2018. – 464 с. : ил., [16] с. ил.
ISBN 978-5-88812-887-9

The article deals with the ancient tradition about Elean delegation sent to an Egyptian pharaoh (... more The article deals with the ancient tradition about Elean delegation sent to an Egyptian pharaoh (Psammetic II or Amasis) in order to find out the best way to organize the Olympic games. The evidences of Herodotus (II. 160) and Diodorus Siculus (I. 95. 2) should be compared with some allusions in Plutarch and Philostratus, with Pausanias’ evidence concerning Elean envoys to the Siwa oracle and with prosopographical and onomastical data. Elean Amasis, mentioned by Theophrastus (apud Athen. Deipn. XIII. 21 (Kaibel)), could take his personal name from the Egyptian king as a result of some real contacts, which had taken place during VI century B. C. Using of names of foreign dynasts is rather typical habit of Greek aristocracy, who wanted to demonstrate in such a way xenic (or quasi-xenic) relations. The historical circumstance of these supposed contacts was the struggle between Elis and Pisatis for control over the Olympic sanctuary and the administration of the Games. The Elean address to Egypt, his kings, oracles and wise men could be originally an attempt to get support from some independent authority, but we can find only the transformed traces of this historical fact presented by anecdotes in the works of Herodotus and Diodorus. The origin of these anecdotes may be anti-elean, but their critical spirit concerning the administration of the Olympic games corresponds with the clause from the VI century B. C. Olympic inscription, which prevents against the partiality of the Elean judges. Taking into account all these facts, the history of Elean envoys itself looks more real than its ‘fairy” anecdotic entourage. The dating of the embassy in version of Diodorus (to the time of Amasis) seems to be more precise.

"Back to Salamis!": International Conference "Salamis on Cyprus: History and Archaeology from Th... more "Back to Salamis!": International Conference "Salamis on Cyprus: History and Archaeology from The Earliest Times to THe Late Antiquity. 21-23 May, 2015, Nicosia. - a review published in Journal of Ancient History

Conference Presentations by Pavel Evdokimov

The fragment from Aristotele’s work (Fr. 526 Rose3) describing remarkable features of royal buria... more The fragment from Aristotele’s work (Fr. 526 Rose3) describing remarkable features of royal burial custom, dating back to the time of Trojan war, has been erroneously attributed to Crete and the Cretan politeia, while there are more reasons to attribute it to Cyprus and, consequently to the Cypriot politea. This correction, made in the edition of O. Gigon, has a great value for studying Cypriot kingship, because it derives some significant traits of royal burial custom from the epoch, when the Achaean immigrants familiarized themselves on the island, and it offers us to elucidate a number of archaeological realia dealing with royal burial and warrior culture of Cyprus during the time of city-kingdoms.

Late Soviet Mass-Culture of a "mute majority" and Cypriot Antiquities. The References on the Exhi... more Late Soviet Mass-Culture of a "mute majority" and Cypriot Antiquities. The References on the Exhibition "The Treasures of Cyprus" (September, 1970) in their historical and cultural context.

Олимпийские игры в политике, повседневной жизни и культуре (от античности до современности), 2021

The article deals with the questions on the origin and development of hellanodicai — magistracy w... more The article deals with the questions on the origin and development of hellanodicai — magistracy who were the judges of the Olympic contests and administrated the whole Olympic festival playing the key-role in that panhellenic event. The unique evidences of Pausanias (although conserved in not optimal conditions) can be supplemented by the data from other writers and give us the rule to point the main periods of development for this magistracy: the years of the Olympic games of 580, 478 and 472 B. C. These periods saw the consistent increase of the number of magistrates responsible for the administration of the Olympics and judgment, which fact corresponds with putting into shape and constitution of the Elean political control upon the panhellenic sanctuary and the Games in Olympia. As for the diminishment of the number of the Olympic judges, it should be explained as the result of territorial lost during unstable circumstances of the late classical age.

Problemy istorii, fi lologii, kul’tury, 2019

The accounts of the written sources on the sanctuary of Artemis Ephesia found by Xenophon in Scil... more The accounts of the written sources on the sanctuary of Artemis Ephesia found by Xenophon in Scillus permit us to include this singular event (described by its main actor as some particular episode of his life after his return from the Anabasis) into the more wide historical context of serious transformations in the political landscape of the North-Western Peloponnese in late 5th – fi rst third of the 4th century BC.
The foundation of a new sanctuary in Scillus (exempt from the power of the Elean territorial state at the result of the war between Elis and Sparta, 402-400 BC) was the way to establish in the region of Triphilia the Laconian-friendly political regime and to provide here the root to
Xenophon – the personal friend of the king Agesilaus – who at this place acquired the functions of Spartan proxenos. The new regular festival connected with the sanctuary of Artemis included ritualized hunting and the youth getting ready to became adult citizens participated in it, and the
children of Xenophon himself as well. All these actions created, developed and actualized new social connections and were not “private matter” in the strict sense of this word. After the Spartan defeat at Leuctra (371 BC) Xenophon and his family had to leave Scillus, and the historian was accused in the Olympic Council – the fact which provides us a reason to
deduce that the authority of this institution was not limited only by the questions of organization and administration of the Pan-Hellenic festival in Olympia, but it was also the key-instrument of Elean political hegemony in the North-West Peloponnese as the whole.

Aristeas. PHILOLOGIA CLASSICA ET HISTORIA ANTIQVA, 2022

The article contains short review of the papers presented at the international digital conference... more The article contains short review of the papers presented at the international digital conference which deals with Cyprus connectivity in the Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the 5th century B. C.

Античные культы в пределах полисов и империй: сборник статей по ито- гам Второго Всероссийского междисциплинарного научного семинара 20–21 июня 2020 года, г. Ярославль / Отв. ред. Е.С. Данилов. — Москва: Тропа, 2021., 2021

The fragment from Aristotele’s work (Fr. 526 Rose3) describing remarkable features of royal buria... more The fragment from Aristotele’s work (Fr. 526 Rose3) describing remarkable features of royal burial custom, dating back to the time of Trojan war, has been erroneously attributed to Crete and the Cretan politeia, while there are more reasons to attribute it to Cyprus and, consequently to the Cypriot politea. This correction, made in the edition of O. Gigon, has a great value for studying Cypriot kingship, because it derives some significant traits of royal burial custom from the epoch, when the Achaean immigrants familiarized themselves on the island, and it offers us to elucidate a number of archaeological realia dealing with royal burial and warrior culture of Cyprus during the time of city-kingdoms.

CLASSICAL CYPRUS Proceedings of the Conference University of Graz, 21–23 September 2017, 2020

Экономика, право, власть в древнем мире. Посвящается памяти В. И. Кузищина. СПб.: Алетейя, 2021., 2021

The article deals with the main issues of discussion in the actual research of the political stru... more The article deals with the main issues of discussion in the actual research of the political structure in pre-hellenistic Cyprus. It comprises two mutually connected questions: 1) the chronology and ways of state formation in Cyprus during the Early Iron Age and 2) the political, economic and social character of Cypriot city-kingdoms (or, to say more accurate, - polities), if they belonged to the world of Greek poleis or not. Both questions provoked intensive and fruitful polemics during recent 30 years, which resolution should bring us to more deep and comprehensive understanding not only for the history of ancient Cyprus, but for the concept of ancient polis in general.
The author supports the interpretation of Cypriot kingdoms as a specific form of polis, developed as the result of several particular factors (more continuity with Late Bronze Age traditions, more close relationship with Near Eastern powers, resource-type of political economy). The survival of royal power as a political regime in Cypriot states (what do not exclude the existence of polis as citizen entity) could create in long distance the effect of “sleeping institutions” which restarted to act and react in Hellenistic times.
Key-words:
Cyprus, Ancient Greek polis, royal power, state formation, polity, antiquity, historiography

МАИЭТ, 2019

This paper addresses the so-called amphorae with fine corrugation zones (globular amphorae), whic... more This paper addresses the so-called amphorae with fine corrugation zones (globular amphorae), which, along with the Black Sea amphorae with ribbed body, form up the largest group in the pottery complex from the Early Medieval towns and settlements in the Northern Black Sea Area. In the Mediterranean, globular amphorae appeared from the first decades of the seventh century (or even from the sixth century) to the late eighth or, plausibly, mid-ninth century at the latest. In the Northern Black Sea Area, the amphorae with fine corrugation zones are usually dated to the eighth century, with the final of their existence to the tenth or eleventh centuries, which is significantly different from the chronology of analogous ware in the Mediterranean. However, the new data in possession supplies the data to clarify the chronology. This paper addresses the assemblages usually attracted to argument the long existence of globular amphorae. Moreover, we address the complexes containing the amphorae of the Black Sea type with fine corrugation zones and grooved body excavated at Phanagoreia, which confirm the idea that they were not synchronous and that globular amphorae fell into disuse by the late ninth century.

The Journal of Ancient History, 2019

ΠΕΝΤΗΚΟΝΤΑΕΤΙΑ. Исследования по античной истории и культуре. Сборник, посвященный юбилею Игоря Евгеньевича Сурикова / Под ред. О. Л. Габелко, А. В. Махлаюка и А. А. Синицына. – СПб.: Издательство РХГА, 2018. – 464 с. : ил., [16] с. ил. ISBN 978-5-88812-887-9, 2018

P. A. Evdokimov The Cypriot Politeia of Aristotle and Royal Power in Cyprus There are just a fe... more P. A. Evdokimov
The Cypriot Politeia of Aristotle and Royal Power in Cyprus
There are just a few remained fragments of Aristotle's lost Cypriot politeia in the excerpts of later periods. It is worth noting, that all these extracts are anyway devoted to the problem of royal power (one explains the difference between the terms basileus and anax and another one gives some information concerning some particular personalities from the royal dynasty of Pafos); we should also take into account the one fragment from Politics, where he mentions a complot against Evagoras I the Salaminian.
Some interesting traits connect “political” works of Stagiritus with Cyprus: his friendship with Eudemus the Cypriot, the devotion of Protrepticus to Cypriot ruler Themison, Clearchus from Soloi as Aristotle's student in the Lyceum and Theophrastus, who also turned his attention to the phenomenon of royal power in Cyprus – not to mention Isocrates' Orationes and other facts of the late 5th – 4th centuries B. C. , which made the island closer to a number of Athenian intellectuals and politics of than time.
Both works of Aristotle devoted to megalonesoi (Crete and Cyprus) were named in a quite similar manner, i.e. Ton Cyprion politeia and Ton Creton politeia – that means that without going deep in the details and peculiarities connected with each individual polity, the author deals with common features of all the polities in these islands (seen from aside Cypriot polities looked much similar to each other, as like as Cretan ones did).
It is possible to suppose that it was namely the unique institute of royal power which attracted Aristotle's attention in Cyprus, so some general thoughts made in his Politics could be deduces by taking into account Cypriot political reality – and it is probably the passage where the Stagirite defines several types of royal power (Arist. Polit. ΙΙΙ. 12-14, 1285 b). When the philosopher deals with the royal power of the heroic times, it fits well to Cypriot realia known both from archaeological evidences and written tradition: military function of Cypriot kings as war-leaders, their close connection with cult (as king-priests in Pafos of elsewhere), scepters as signs of power, and especially important role as patrons of crafts (first of all mining bronze-production and metallworking).

Published in: ΠΕΝΤΗΚΟΝΤΑΕΤΙΑ. Исследования по античной истории и культуре. Сборник, посвященный юбилею Игоря Евгеньевича Сурикова / Под ред. О. Л. Габелко, А. В. Махлаюка и А. А. Синицына. – СПб.: Издательство РХГА, 2018. – 464 с. : ил., [16] с. ил.
ISBN 978-5-88812-887-9

The article deals with the ancient tradition about Elean delegation sent to an Egyptian pharaoh (... more The article deals with the ancient tradition about Elean delegation sent to an Egyptian pharaoh (Psammetic II or Amasis) in order to find out the best way to organize the Olympic games. The evidences of Herodotus (II. 160) and Diodorus Siculus (I. 95. 2) should be compared with some allusions in Plutarch and Philostratus, with Pausanias’ evidence concerning Elean envoys to the Siwa oracle and with prosopographical and onomastical data. Elean Amasis, mentioned by Theophrastus (apud Athen. Deipn. XIII. 21 (Kaibel)), could take his personal name from the Egyptian king as a result of some real contacts, which had taken place during VI century B. C. Using of names of foreign dynasts is rather typical habit of Greek aristocracy, who wanted to demonstrate in such a way xenic (or quasi-xenic) relations. The historical circumstance of these supposed contacts was the struggle between Elis and Pisatis for control over the Olympic sanctuary and the administration of the Games. The Elean address to Egypt, his kings, oracles and wise men could be originally an attempt to get support from some independent authority, but we can find only the transformed traces of this historical fact presented by anecdotes in the works of Herodotus and Diodorus. The origin of these anecdotes may be anti-elean, but their critical spirit concerning the administration of the Olympic games corresponds with the clause from the VI century B. C. Olympic inscription, which prevents against the partiality of the Elean judges. Taking into account all these facts, the history of Elean envoys itself looks more real than its ‘fairy” anecdotic entourage. The dating of the embassy in version of Diodorus (to the time of Amasis) seems to be more precise.

"Back to Salamis!": International Conference "Salamis on Cyprus: History and Archaeology from Th... more "Back to Salamis!": International Conference "Salamis on Cyprus: History and Archaeology from The Earliest Times to THe Late Antiquity. 21-23 May, 2015, Nicosia. - a review published in Journal of Ancient History

The fragment from Aristotele’s work (Fr. 526 Rose3) describing remarkable features of royal buria... more The fragment from Aristotele’s work (Fr. 526 Rose3) describing remarkable features of royal burial custom, dating back to the time of Trojan war, has been erroneously attributed to Crete and the Cretan politeia, while there are more reasons to attribute it to Cyprus and, consequently to the Cypriot politea. This correction, made in the edition of O. Gigon, has a great value for studying Cypriot kingship, because it derives some significant traits of royal burial custom from the epoch, when the Achaean immigrants familiarized themselves on the island, and it offers us to elucidate a number of archaeological realia dealing with royal burial and warrior culture of Cyprus during the time of city-kingdoms.

Late Soviet Mass-Culture of a "mute majority" and Cypriot Antiquities. The References on the Exhi... more Late Soviet Mass-Culture of a "mute majority" and Cypriot Antiquities. The References on the Exhibition "The Treasures of Cyprus" (September, 1970) in their historical and cultural context.

Some observations on the historical context of two visits to Cyprus by Soviet archaeologist Anna ... more Some observations on the historical context of two visits to Cyprus by Soviet archaeologist Anna K. Korovina; personal memoires of Mrs. Marina Pieridou and mappings of the monuments visited by Soviet scholars in Cyprus in 1962-1967.
Presented during the Conference on the 100th anniversary of Dr. Anna K. Korovina (The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 4.06.2018)
http://archaeolog.ru/media/konf_2018/korovina/programma.pdf

A Lecture presented in the opening event for the exhibition "Cypriote Antiquities seen by a Sovie... more A Lecture presented in the opening event for the exhibition "Cypriote Antiquities seen by a Soviet Archaeologist" (Cyprus Embassy in Moscow)

Soviet scholar abroad: foreign voyages of Pfof. S. V. Kiselyov, 1950-1962. Lecture given 6.10.201... more Soviet scholar abroad: foreign voyages of Pfof. S. V. Kiselyov, 1950-1962. Lecture given 6.10.2017 during the 3th colloquium on the history of Soviet classics at the Institute of World Hostory, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow). Used unpublished archive data.

There are just a few remained fragments of Aristotle's lost Cypriot politeia in the excerpts of l... more There are just a few remained fragments of Aristotle's lost Cypriot politeia in the excerpts of later periods. It is worth noting, that all these extracts are anyway devoted to the problem of royal power (one explains the difference between the terms basileus and anax and two others give some information concerning some particular personalities from the royal dynasty of Pafos and royal burial customs); we should also take into account the fragment from Politics, where author mentions a complot against Evagoras I the Salaminian.
Some interesting traits connect “political” works of Stagiritus with Cyprus: his friendship with Eudemus the Cypriot, the devotion of Protrepticos to Cypriot ruler Themison, Clearchus from Soloi as Aristotle's student in the Lyceum and Theophrastus, who also turned his attention to the phenomenon of royal power in Cyprus – not to mention Isocrates' Orationes and other facts of the late 5th – 4th centuries B. C. , which made the island closer to a number of Athenian intellectuals and politicians of than time.
Both works of Aristotle devoted to megalonesoi (Crete and Cyprus) were named in quite a similar manner, i.e. Ton Cyprion politeia and Ton Creton politeia – that means that without going deep in the details and peculiarities connected with each individual polity, the author deals with common features of all the polities in these islands (seen from aside Cypriot polities looked much similar to each other, as like as Cretan ones did).
It is possible to suppose that it was namely the unique institute of royal power which attracted Aristotle's attention in Cyprus, so some general thoughts made in his Politics could be deduced by taking into account Cypriot political reality – and it is probably the passage where the Stagirite defines several types of royal power (Arist. Polit. ΙΙΙ. 12-14, 1285 b). When the philosopher deals with the royal power of the heroic times, it fits well to Cypriot realia known both from archaeological evidences and written tradition: military function of Cypriot kings as war-leaders, their close connection with cult (as king-priests in Paphos or elsewhere), scepters as signs of power, and especially important role as patrons of crafts (first of all mining bronze-production and metallworking).

Presentation of a report made in Russian Cultural center, Nicosia, Cyprus, 21.02.2017

(Shield, breastplates and the distaff: the royal gifts from Cyprus in epics and history)

Report held on the 24th of February, 2015 in Russian cultural center, Nicosia, Cyprus

В монографии впервые в отечественной историографии предпринята попытка комплексного описания явле... more В монографии впервые в отечественной историографии предпринята попытка комплексного описания явления культа правителей в эллинистических государствах, его предпосылок на Ближнем и Среднем Востоке, в Греции и Македонии в доэллинистическое время, а также его последующей эволюции в древнем Риме. В книге освещены такие мало изучавшиеся отечественными историками сюжеты, как специфика общества и государства Кипра начала I тыс. до н.э., культ персидских царей дома Ахеменидов и почитание военачальников и политических деятелей римской Республики.

Особенностью данной книги стало совмещение в ее рамках материала разных регионов и эпох древнего мира, что оказалось возможным благодаря не только сотрудничеству большого числа исследователей, но и использованию ими источников разных типов и на разных языках. Древнеегипетские и клинописные источники эллинистического времени занимают в книге при обращении к идеологии государств Птолемеев и Селевкидов не меньшее место, чем традиционные для изучения этих сюжетов античные нарративы и документы. Авторы и редакторы монографии не ставили перед собой задачу детального соотнесения между собой выводов и построений ее отдельных разделов, однако эти разделы сгруппированы в большие главы, соответствующие важнейшим рубежам в эволюции культа правителей (таким, как начало эллинизма, становление ориентализирующих постэллинистических государств и возникновение межрегиональной Римской державы) и благодаря этому дают достаточно полную и связную характеристику данного явления.

Книга ориентирована на историков специалистов по истории древнего Ближнего и Среднего Востока и античного мира, а также всех, кого интересует история политических институтов, государственной идеологии и мировоззрений обществ древности и средневековья.

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The year 1962 was important in the history of relations between the young Republic of Cyprus and ... more The year 1962 was important in the history of relations between the young Republic of Cyprus and the USSR. Almost at the same moment the island has been visited by the first spaceman Yury Gagarin, one of functionaries from the Central Committee of the Communist Party Alexey Romanov and archaeologist Sergey V. Kisseloyff.
Sergey Vladimirovich Kisselyoff (1905-1962) – a prominent Soviet archaeologist, vice director of the Institute of Archaeology in Moscow (1945-1951), specialized in the archaeology of the Neolithic and Bronze Age, Professor of the Moscow State University, - visited Cyprus in May, 1962
As archaeologist, Prof. Kisselyoff organized excavations in the South Siberia, Altai, in the Central Asia. After the Second World War he spent several field seasons in Mongolia, where he explored medieval settlements of Mongolian empire, and had significant impact in the development of national school of Mongolian archaeology. Kisselyoff also visited China (in 1950 and 1959) and
Hungary (in 1950). In these trips, set aside the acquaintance with archaeological sites and museum collections, he assured important official functions as representative if Soviet academic science and established collaborations with the scholars from abroad and developed cultural diplomacy.
The Mediterranean archaeology became the subject of interest for Prof. Kisselyoff by the beginning of the 1960-ies. The professor had in plans to write a general research “The Bronze Age of the Old World” and generalize in this book his personal view and experience from the Far East to Europe. Prof. Kisselyoff specialized in archaeology of the Neolithic and Bronze Age and he created a special department on the archaeology of these periods in the Institute of Archaeology in Moscow. That is why namely the monuments of Neolithic and Bronze in Cyprus provoked his personal interest while visiting the island. Choirokoitia, the Neolithic settlement, the most important known site of the epoch not only in Cyprus, but also in the whole Eastern Mediterranean, attracted Kisselyoff’s attention.

During his visit Prof. Kisselyoff met The Director of the Department of Antiquities P. Dikaios, the Curator of the Cyprus Museum Vassos Karageorghis and many other significant personalities who acted in the area of Cypriot science, culture and education. He visited a number of historical places all around the island (like Salamis, Kourion, Choirokitia, Paphos, Larnaca, Kiti, Kyrenia etc.) and took a collection of photos which have now some historical value, as they represent the monuments of Cyprus before the Turkish invasion of 1974. It is evident, that for the scholar it was not a simple scientific business trip, but it was also a responsible mission as a fact of Soviet cultural diplomacy. Prof. Kisselyoff’s diary witnesses that he met in Cyprus not only archaeologists, but also local authorities, officials from the Ministry of Education and Culture, politicians of different rank and members of the AKEL party.