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The ghosts that stalk the Cretan hills are ghosts of war and fury. The spirits of Cyprus are altogether more lubricious. Here you are on the very edge of Asia. The high white mountains of Anatolia shimmer to the north, the mountains we saw as we sailed into Byzantium with Dandolo long ago, and not far away, you feel, watchers on the Syrian shore have their eyes upon you – it was from Beirut, sixty miles to the east, that James Elroy Flecker saw his old ships sail: … dipping deep For Famagusta an...d the hidden sun That rings black Cyprus with a lake of fire… The chief deity of Cyprus is Aphrodite, goddess of love and dalliance, and the legends of the island are shot through with licence and intrigue, the passions of women, the loves of kings. Oh for Cyprus [Euripedes wrote] Island of Aphrodite! There go the Loves In fields familiar: They who beguile Man’s heart awhile On his road to death. The Venetians had known Cyprus since the earliest days of their trading with the east, and perhaps felt spiritually proprietorial towards it because Mark the Evangelist had learned his trade there, but they did not acquire it at the division of the Crusader spoils because it was not then part of the Byzantine empire.
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