Bust of Kimon

His last order was to keep his own death a secret.

Local name: Κίμων ο Αθηναίος

Collection: Larnaca and Ayia Napa · Cyprus · Open in OpenStreetMap

Bust of Kimon on the Larnaca seafront · Markus Leupold-Löwenthal, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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How the story begins

Larnaca's seafront has a monument to a general who came here to take the town by force and, by the oldest account, failed. His name was Kimon. He sailed from Athens with two hundred warships to fight the Persian Empire, and laid siege to Kition, the Phoenician city that is now Larnaca. During the campaign he sent men to the shrine of Ammon with a secret question. No one knows what they were sent to ask.

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