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of paper presented at the Modern Greek Studies Association biennial meeting, held at Stockton University, Galloway, NJ (Nov. 2-5, 2017). Reno Wideson (born Ευριβιἀδης, 1920): A Prolegomenon to the critical study of an amateur master of Cypriot photography Despite its large volume and incomparable quality, Reno Wideson's photographic meditations on Cyprus and its people have received little scholarly attention and almost minimal critical analysis. This is largely owing to the fact that few non-specialists suspect that under the pseudonym Reno Wideson hides an amateur master, the scion of a Greek Cypriot family from Larnaca. In Cyprus, his work is celebrated for its documentary value and the sensitivity with which Wideson captured vanishing aspects of Cypriot life in the 50s, 60s and 70s. Motivated by nostalgia for an era long gone, evaluations of his numerous photographs are usually based on aestheticizing principles and characterizations such as «poet of the camera» (Lawrence Durrell). Wideson's life and work warrant insights that diverge from the standard ethnocentric or formalist approaches to his oeuvre. This paper reviews the critical reception of Wideson's work while foregrounding as an analytical lens Wideson's ambivalent subjectivity. In the '50s Wideson worked as a civil servant for the British Administration of Cyprus (head of the Tourist Development Bureau), and during this period he produced two books of photographs (Cyprus in Pictures, 1953; Portrait of Cyprus, 1955) shot while travelling all around the island on government business. It is therefore worth exploring how his creative persona accommodated the often opposed roles of colonial subject and Greek-Cypriot native. His work was espoused by the colonial establishment for the promotion of Cyprus as a thriving tourist destination. However, I argue that aspects of his photography engaged in a subtle exploration, often philosophical in overtones, of the nature of colonial rule vis-à-vis the wider historical trajectory of Cyprus.

Salt is an important source that conserved its value throughout the
history. It has given its name to cities and states, been a subject of many conflicts and even used as an equivalent of the money. Salt that has been derived from mines, seas – oceans and salt lakes is being widely used in various areas ranging from food drying in chemical industry to opening of the roads in snow. The diaries of travellers, archives and official records implied that Cyprus Island was a rich source for salt mining. The two lakes; Larnaca and Akrotiri, which a separate importance had been attributed throughout the history of the Island, had an impact on both the economy and the trade in the Mediterranean region. Today, salt is not derived from either of these lakes and due to their ecological importance they have been used as
Recreation Centers and shelters for the migratory birds. In this study, by taking advantage of historical documents, we are aiming to analyze the two important salt sources of Cyprus in terms of historical geography and to perform environmental analyses on site in order to establish the current status of these two lakes.

SUMMARY: Lecture 13 continues the discussion of the Middle Minoan to Late Minoan palace centres on Crete, including the eruption of Santorini and slow decline on Crete leading up to the ca. 1450 BC "Mycenaean" domination of Crete --politically? versus culturally? This lecture is designed mainly as an educational resource for college students (i.e., normally posted only on my institution's course website), the public (e.g., people auditing my course), and interested colleagues from other disciplines (to whom I provide copies privately).  I am posting it here, both as a broader access, educational tool, and especially to promote the study of this region and its past societies.  For further knowledge about this region and period, I refer interested parties to the textbooks and other sources from which the materials were extracted (see syllabus), and/or the bibliographies in these works and my online resource guides (see other files in my academia folders).  The lecture summarizes the pertinent materials in the course textbook(s), adding in other data, and furnishing numerous images to clarify information encountered within the textbook(s).  Some generic imagery (usually indicated as such) is posted to aid in transmitting various concepts visually, and/or when a specific image remains not located (temporarily).  I update and revise such lectures each time, with such elective courses normally being taught once every two years.  I try to cover the most current, mainstream views, and usually place summary notes at the end of each lecture alongside some of the key sources used for compiling the ppt.  Over time, each lecture is improved, errors rectified, and additional data placed within the lecture.  These ppt. lectures take many hours to compile, but they have proved useful to many of my more serious students and I hope they can be of benefit to others as well.  My apologies for any errors I may have made, and my liberal usage of educational imagery from professional sources and vetted internet sources.  REVISED: March, 2024, some revised formatting, text and images, plus many selected sources.

The « Sanctuary of Artemis Paralia » in Kition (present Larnaca, Cyprus) is primarily renowned for the spot where hundreds of terracottas of the « Greek Classical » type were discovered in the late 19th century. Today preserved in prestigious collections around the world, those figurines – mainly representing a seated goddess wearing vegetal attributes, sometimes coupled with young children – have never been part of an extended research including all archaeological material which is constituting the starting point of my ongoing PhD thesis. The exact location of the original deposits cleared out between 1864 and 1870 is subject to different assumptions. With the support of original archives and personal field observations, this paper suggests however, that the place determined by the most frequently followed topographical study edited by Kyriakos Nicolaou in 1976 is partially mistaken.