Cyprus · Folktales and oral traditions
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Cyprus
- Tales
- 1
- Dated records
- 1
- Tales linked to multiple countries
- 0
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The Cyprus entry leads to the passage of Ovid’s Metamorphoses that mentions the island’s festival of Venus. The name Paphos appears at the end of the tale. The map pin marks that geographical association with the Latin text.
Tales in the Atlas
Pygmalion and the Statue
1st century CE · Ovid · Metamorphoses · Book X, 243–297
Tales found across countries
No tales linked to multiple countries are listed for this country yet.