Imagining Mount Athos: Visions of a Holy Place, from Homer to World War II

by Veronica della Dora

Book Overview

For more than one thousand years the monastic republic of Mount Athos has been one of the most chronicled and yet least accessible places in the Mediterranean. Difficult to reach until the last century and strictly restricted to male visitors only, the Holy Mountain of Orthodoxy has been known in the Eastern Christian world and in western Europe more through representation than through direct experience.

Most writing on Athos has focused...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813930855
• ISBN13: 9780813930855
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"