myth interpretation · myth_teucer_salamis_foundation
Teucer and the foundation of Salamis as a later origin tradition
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
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Research assessment
alternative interpretations
- The tradition may preserve a transformed memory of small-scale mobility or elite genealogy.
- It may be a later political construction with no recoverable Late Bronze historical core.
- The movement may refer to Salamis's later formation rather than Enkomi's destruction.
Evidence and sources
- supports · provides primary literary tradition
Evagoras — IsocratesAttests Teucer as founder in fourth-century BCE rhetoric.
Locator: Evagoras 16–18 - supports · provides archaeological context
Cyprus During the Iron Age I Period (Late Cypriot IIC–IIIA): Settlement Pattern Crisis (LC IIC–IIIA) to the Restructuring (LC IIIB) of Its Settlement Pattern — Maria Iacovou (2014)Separates archaeological urban history from the tradition.
Locator: Enkomi–Salamis settlement transition - supports · provides source criticism
Resilient Social Actors in the Transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age on Cyprus — Nathan Meyer, A. Bernard Knapp (2021)Places the tradition within modern migration debates.
Locator: Foundation narratives and transition
Referenced records
- Eastern Mesaoria and Enkomi hinterland · entity
- Enkomi · entity