Would that I could go to cyprus, the island of Venus, where the lovers dwell, soothing the minds of mortals, and to Paphos, which the waters of a foreign river flowing with an hundred mouths fertilize without rain-and to the land of Pieria, where is the beautiful seat of the Muses, the holy hill of Olympus.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
Further, since the Phenicians, as we shall see, set foot on the coast of Hellas from about the year 1200 B.C. onwards, we must place the foundation of the colonies on the coasts nearest them, the settlement in cyprus, before this date, about the middle of the thirteenth century B.C. What population the Phenicians found on cyprus it is not possible to discover.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker
In the beginning of the tenth century B.C. the cities of cyprus stood under the supremacy of the king of Tyre.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker