Kourion’s ruins are full of mosaics, but one building’s floor names its subjects: gladiators, mid-fight, labelled like a cast list. Margarites and Hellenikos face off under their own inscribed Greek names in one panel; in another, a gladiator called Lytras advances on an opponent of whom only a helmeted head and a foot survive, while a referee named Darios holds up a rod to intervene. They are the only gladiator mosaics in Cyprus.
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