 The Hill of Kronos
Peter Levi
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978 0 955010 54 5
Area of interest: Greece
Genre: British Abroad, Biography Date of first publication: 2007
Eland publication date: September 1, 2007
Price: £12.99
Peter Levi paints a radiant portrait of the Greece he came to know through a lifetime of exploration. As a young scholar he sought out its ancient spirit, the keys to its mythology and civilisation, in its ruined cities and majestic mountains.
Later, as a priest working as a diplomat and a friend of the oppressed, he lived in Athens through the dark days of the dictatorship. The sinews of political life led back to secret alliances made during the civil war and the earlier occupation of Greece, back to murder, starvation and corpse-filled quarries.
Lastly he sees the country through the mature eyes of a family man, with the ripened sensibility of an acclaimed poet. This is a precious fusion of experience and insight from one philhellene to all those who have come to love Greece.
With a selection of poems by the author
biography of Peter Levi
‘I have nothing but gratitude for this devoted, this splendid, this unique book: to read it is to have the experience of Greece itself '
THE TIMES
‘This book is lit up by the search for a poet's fitting phrase'
ROBIN LANE FOX
Mr. Levi's joy in words is contagious, and his evocation of a place and people rich and many-hued'
The New York Times
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