Across civilizations, rivers—the Greek Styx, the Chinese River of Oblivion, and the Sumerian Hubur—have always been closely associated with death. Dala Nasser’s exhibition Adonis River, exploring ...

Long ago, the goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite, cast a spell upon a young woman who had angered her, finally turning her into a myrrh tree. Months later, the trunk of the tree burst open and out ...

A new opera by American composer Nico Muhly is reimagining the myth of Aphrodite through a contemporary lens, exploring beauty, desire and identity in a strikingly relevant way. Aphrodite had its ...

The Paphos Regional Tourism Board (Etap) this week introduced a new application that brings the myth of Aphrodite to life using audiovisual means, after it had previously identified a need to leverage ...

Perched on the southwest coast of Paphos, this captivating city is steeped in legend and bathed in Mediterranean light. Believed to be the birthplace of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, it’s a ...

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