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Paperback Phoenix: The Station: Athos: Treasures and Men Book

ISBN: 1842122088

ISBN13: 9781842122082

Phoenix: The Station: Athos: Treasures and Men

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Mount Athos, the spiritual heart of Eastern Orthodox Monasticism, is perhaps the most sacred and mysterious place in Greece; it is an autonomous state where no woman can set foot and which has its own... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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The greatest of his generation

A beautiful and tender book about one the most remote places in a country overcome by mass tourism. Byron's enthusiasm and wit leaps off the page. A contemporary of Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, John Betjeman and others of the so-called Brideshead Generation, Byron was, I think, the greatest talent of the lot because of his passinate conviction that is unobscured by the angst-ridden,boring Catholic fogeyism of the others. Byron's assertion that it is in the Byzantine empire where Hellenic culture reaches its high-point (not in 5th-century Athens)is, in my opinion, correct. I'll take the serene interior of an Orthodox church over the enigmatic Parthenon anytime.
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