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: | 978-0-8139-3085-5 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2011 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $39.50 |
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.