Pafos: Where Aphrodite Rises and Empires Go to Sell Fridge Magnets
Pafos – the Cypriot city whose name autocorrect insists on turning into “pafo” or “pafos” depending on your phone’s mood – has spent the last three millennia watching empires rise, fall, and sell fridge magnets of themselves in the gift shop afterward. Today, it stands as a tidy allegory for the entire planet’s current predicament:…