Artist: Chrysostomos Perdios
Location: Agia Zoni square, Agia Zoni street, Limassol. Limassol district
Material: Carrara marble
Dimensions: 160 cm (+ 36 cm the two steps) x 46 cm x 36 cm
Category: Public Figures, Union (énosis), Public sculpture before 1960
Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou
Themistokleous had been the head of the Limassol high school and a fervent supporter of the enosis (union with Greece) ideology. The initiative for the bust was taken in 1957 by an ad hoc private committee, and the Limassol Municipality. The unveiling took place on November 1st 1959.
Selected sources:
~ Παρατηρητής (Paratiritis), March 21, 1957, p. 4.
~ Παρατηρητής (Paratiritis), April 25, 1957, p. 1.
~ Παρατηρητής (Paratiritis), May 23, 1957, p. 1.
~ Παρατηρητής (Paratiritis), June 6, 1957, p. 1.
~ Χρόνος (Hronos), July 13, 1957, p. 4.
~ Savvidis Christakis, Περιδιαβάζοντας τη Λεμεσό (Strolling around Limassol). Limassol Municipality: 1991.
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