Phoenix: The Station: Athos: Treasures and Men

by Robert Byron

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842122088
• ISBN13: 9781842122082
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Phoenix
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

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.