The Hill of Kronos

Author: Peter Levi

Presents a portrait of the Greece the author came to know through a lifetime of exploration. This work is a fusion of experience, a gift of insight from one philhellene to all those who have come to love Greece.

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Poet, archaeologist, classical scholar and priest, but above all these things, Peter Levi was a Hellenophile. The Hill of Kronos is the fruit of Levi's 'unending love affair with the Greek language' and with the people and places of Greece. It is a hymn to the country in three parts, sung by a scholar in his youth, a politically engaged priest in middle age, and finally in the mellow voice of a poet approaching old age. This is a book of travels redolent of the scent of mountains in the mid-afternoon heat, but also cut through with assured learning, for Peter Levi made the translations of Pausaunias – the original guide-book to Greece of the classical era – for the Penguin Classics.

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Levi is a former Professor of Poetry at University of Oxford, and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

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Peter Levi paints a radiant portrait of the Greece he came to know through a lifetime of exploration. As a young scholar he was fascinated by its ruined cities and majestic mountains. Later, he lived in Athens through the dark days of the dictatorship when his political life led back to secret alliances made during the civil war and the earlier occupation, back to murder, starvation, and corpse-filled quarries. Lastly he describes 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.