الفهرس 
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Abstract
The history of Cyprus is determined by its geographical location in the crossroads of the maritime routes in the Eastern Mediterranean. Many ethnic groups were meeting and various cultures were interacted on the coastal harbors of the island. The Greek-Achaeans reached the island in the late bronze period and the Phoenicians in the ninth century. So three main languages are attested among the ancient population: the indigenous Eteocypriot, the Greek (in syllabic and later in alphabetic script) and the Phoenician lingua. Cyprus was subdued many times by the strong empires of the Near East. After the Assyrians (7th cent BC) and the Egyptians (570-525) eventually the Persians dominated the island in the classical period (525-333 BC) allowing a status of semi-autonomy to the separated city-kingdoms, twelve in number: Salamis, Kition (united with Idalion), Amathous, Kourion, Paphos, Marion, Soloi, Lapethos, Kyrenia, Ledroi, Chytroi, Tamassos. Most of them were coastal cities with good harbors -except Ledroi, Chytroi and Tamassos whose wealth derived from the land-sources.
-The aim of this thesis is to focus on some aspects of the social and cultural life in Hellenistic Cyprus which reveal Ptolemaic or Alexandrian influences and secondly to examine whether these elements contributed to the peace and tranquility on the island in a period of general conflict of interests in the Mediterranean. So first of all the administrative system must be studied as it changed rapidly after the abolition of separated kingdoms and the unification of the island for the first time.