Mount Athos
Subtitle: Renewal in Paradise
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: October 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780300093537
Subjects: Christian communities & monasticism; History of religion; Orthodox Churches; Eastern Christian Churches; Religious Congregations And Orders; Religion - Church History; Religion; Greece; Christianity - History - General; Christianity - Orthodox; Monasticism; Religion / Church History; Athos; Athos (Greece); Monasticism and religious orde; Monasticism and religious orders, Orthodox Eastern
First sentence: When Robert Byron stood on the peak of Athos at sunset one September evening in 1926, he claimed that to the east he could see not only Lemnos but also the coast of Asia Minor beyond: 'the plains of Troy, whence Tozer saw this platform of ours "towering up from the horizon, like a vast spirit of the waters, when the rest of the peninsula is concealed below"'.