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Imagining Mount Athos: Visions of a Holy Place, from Homer to World War II
Veronica della Dora
Most writing on Athos has focused on its Byzantine history and sacred heritage. Imagining Mount Athos uncovers a set of alternative and largely unexplored perspectives, equally important in the mapping and dissemination of Athos in popular imagination. The author considers Mount Athos as the site of pre-Christian myths of Renaissance and Enlightenment scholarship, of shelter for Allied refugees during the Second World War, and of a botanical and sociological laboratory for early-twentieth-century scientists. 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.
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Foreword
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Acknowledgments
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INTRODUCTION
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1 MYTHICAL ATHOS
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2 UTOPIAN ATHOS
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3 ICONIC ATHOS
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4 ERUDITE ATHOS
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5 GEOPOLITICAL ATHOS
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6 SCIENTIFIC ATHOS
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EPILOGUE
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Notes
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References
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Index
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Published: 2011
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
- 9780813932590 (paper)