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Memorial to the Cypriot Mother

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Artist: Andreas Terentis 

Location: Kyriakou Matsis Avenue, Aradippou village. Larnaka district. 

Material: Cement 

Category: Cypriot women

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The initiative for the memorial was taken by the Aradippou Municipality and the Larnaka Committee of the Cypriot Guardsmen’ Mothers and Husbands (ΠΕΜΣΕ/PESME). The unveiling took place on October 9th 1996. The cost was covered through private funding.

One of the statues is an exact copy of the Perivolia village (Larnaka district) statue of Kallipatira, and the Mother of the dead and missing memorial at Vrisoules village (Ammochostos district). All three statues (as well as the whole memorial of Aradippou listed here) are made by the same sculptor. 

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~Φιλελεύθερος (Fileleftheros), December 6, 1995, p. 4.
~Φιλελεύθερος (Fileleftheros), December 23, 1995, p. 20.

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Kallipatira (Καλλιπάτειρα) statue

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Artist: Andreas Terentis 

Location: Faros location. Larnaka district. 

Category: Ancient Greek and Byzantine legacy

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

Kallipatira was daughter, sister, wife and mother of Olympic Games winners in ancient Greece. She dared to dress like a man and enter the Olympic stadium during the Olympic Games, ignoring the strict prohibition of women. Although she was caught, she avoided the death penalty because of her family reputation and mainly because her act was interpreted as prompted by motherly love and pride. 

The statue is an exact copy of one of the figures of the Aradippou village (Larnaka district) memorial dedicated to the Cypriot mother, and the Mother of the dead and missing memorial at Vrisoules village (Ammochostos district). All three are made by the same sculptor.

The monument was commissioned by a private committee for Kallipatira monument and the unveiling took place on February 1st 2004. 

Selected sources:
~ Αρχείο Συμβουλευτικής Επιτροπής Μνημείων Υπουργείου Παιδείας & Πολιτισμού (Advisory Monuments’ Committee) 14.3.01/7, document February 10, 2004. 

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Memorial to the Mother of the dead and missing

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 Artist: Andreas Terentis

Location: On the main road of Agios Georgios settlement, opposite Vrisoules-Aheritou elementary school. Ammochostos district. 

Material: Marble 

Category: Cypriot women, Turkish invasion

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

Vrisoules community committee commissioned the memorial and funded its construction. The unveiling took place on September 14th 1997. In 2012 the memorial was restructured and moved in a new location. An exact copy of the statue is used for the memorial dedicated to the Cypriot mother at Aradippou village and for Kallipatira statue at Perivolia village, both of them in Larnaka district. All three are made by the same sculptor.

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