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Memorial to Apeiteios School benefactors

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Artist: Christos Symeonidis Chrisimos 

Location: “Apeitios” school, Agros. Limassol district 

Material: Brass

Category: Public Figures

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The memorial is dedicated to Ioannis Kliridis (Ιωάννης Κληρίδης), Nearchos Kliridis (Νέαρχος Κληρίδης), Kleio Apeitou (Κλειώ Απέητου). The initiative was taken by the Agros School Supervision and the unveiling took place on November 15th 1998.

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Petros Iliadis (Πέτρος Ηλιάδης) bust

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Artist: Dimitra Tserkezou 

Location: “Apeitios” school, Agros. Limassol district 

Material: Copper

Dimensions: 178 cm (+ 54 cm step) x 32 cm x 43 cm

Category: ΕΟΚΑ 1955-59

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The bust is placed on the left hand side of the school entrance, opposite to the school benefactor’s bust, Kyriakos Apeitos. The unveiling took place on July 3rd 1966.

Selected sources:
~ Αγών (Agon), July 2, 1966, p. 1.
~ Κρατικό Αρχείο Κύπρου, Αρχείο Πολιτιστικών Υπηρεσιών Υπουργείου Παιδείας & Πολιτισμού (State Archive of Cyprus): 268/1968/15, Meeting Minutes March 27, 1997.

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Nearchos Kliridis (Νέαρχος Κληρίδης) bust

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Artist: Christos Symeonidis Chrisimos

Location: Agros. Limassol district

Material: Bronze

Dimensions: 137 cm x 45 cm x 34 cm

Category: Public Figures

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

Nearchos Kliridis was a teacher, writer and a scholar of folklore history. The bust was donated by the Photos Photiadis Foundation and Carlsberg Company. It was made in 1998 and the unveiling took place the following year, on October 10th.

Selected sources:
~ Φιλελεύθερος (Fileleftheros), February 4, 1999, p. 4.

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Kyriakos Apeitos (Κυριάκος Απέητος) bust

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Artist: Christos Symeonidis Chrisimos

Location: “Apeitios” school, Agros. Limassol district

Material: Bronze

Dimensions: 142 cm (+ 16 cm the step) x 66 cm x 44 cm

Category: Public Figures

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

Kyriakos Apeitos was the founder of the “Apeitios” school. The initiative for his bust was taken by the Agros School Supervision. The unveiling took place on November 1st 1997.

At the bottom of the pedestal is placed an ossuary with Kyriakos and his wife, Klio, remnants.

Selected sources:
~ Κρατικό Αρχείο Κύπρου, Αρχείο Πολιτιστικών Υπηρεσιών Υπουργείου Παιδείας & Πολιτισμού (State Archive of Cyprus): 268/1968/16, Meeting Minutes September 16, 1997.

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Memorial to the Pitsilia Women Fighters

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Artist: Christos Symeonidis Chrisimos 

Location: Saint Kyriaki church, Agros. Limassol district 

Category: ΕΟΚΑ 1955-59, Cypriot Women

Photography: Evangelia Matthopoulou

The initiative for the memorial was taken in 1998 by an ad hoc committee for the memorial to the EOKA 1955-59 fighters. 

The distinct segregation between masculine and feminine identities becomes explicitly tangible in the case of the sole memorial acknowledging and honoring women’s contribution to national struggles, paying a “reverent commemoration and praise” to them as indicated on the inscription. 

Nevertheless, the sculpture does not include any of the expected, or necessary under the circumstances, male attitudes of aggressiveness or militaristic spirit. On the contrary, the woman depicted is illustrated in favour of the female stereotype, as a mild, rather agreeable creature, saluting with her right hand while holding a stone in her left hand, which rests bended on her stomach. Symbolic cultural values prove rigid enough to prevent any visual representation of a shifting identity, which could deconstruct the dominant codes. 

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