Includes index.

The island -- Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods: the dawn of Cypriot culture -- The early Bronze Age: a period of confidence -- The middle Bronze Age: a period of uncertainty -- The late Bronze Age: a period of cosmopolitanism -- The end of the Bronze Age -- The Iron Age -- New temples and deities: the Phoenician influence -- The Archaic Period: independent kingdoms -- Wars of independence -- A united Cyprus under the Ptolemies -- Cyprus under the Romans: the end of antiquity -- Epilogue: the coming of Christianity.