Imagining Mount Athos Visions of a Holy Place, from Homer to World War II |
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Author:
| della Dora, Veronica |
Foreword by:
| Lowenthal, David |
ISBN: | 978-0-8139-3259-0 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2012 |
Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $31.00 |
Book Description:
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Most writing on Mount Athos has focused on its Byzantine history and sacred heritage. This uncovers a set of alternative and largely unexplored perspectives, equally important in the mapping and dissemination of Athos in popular imagination. Each chapter considers a different narrative channel through which Athos has entered Orthodox and western European imagination: the mythical, the utopian, the sacred, the scholarly, the geopolitical, and the scientific.
Most writing on Mount Athos has focused on its Byzantine history and sacred heritage. This uncovers a set of alternative and largely unexplored perspectives, equally important in the mapping and dissemination of Athos in popular imagination. Each chapter considers a different narrative channel through which Athos has entered Orthodox and western European imagination: the mythical, the utopian, the sacred, the scholarly, the geopolitical, and the scientific.