Top 10 Top 10 Works of Art and Literature
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1. Zorba the Greek by Kazantzakis
The freedom-loving spirit of Greece is to the fore in this early 20th-century tragi-comedy.
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2. Erotokritos by Vinzentzos Kornaros
Ten thousand lines of epic poetry written in the 15-syllable heptametric style of Byzantium.
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3. Travellers on the Way to the Monastery of St Catherine by El Greco
El Greco’s only painting to be seen in Crete (in the Historical Museum in Knosos).
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4. Lord,Thou Art Great by Ioannis Kornaros
This is one of Crete’s most dazzling and famous icons; it resides at Moni Toplou (see Moni Toplou).
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5. Paintings by Lefteris Kanakakis
Rethymno’s Contemporary Arts Centre houses a variety of Kanakakis’s work.
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6. The Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault
A fictional retelling of the ancient legend of Theseus, Minos and the Minotaur.
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7. The Cretan Journal of Edward Lear
Lear’s illustrated diary of a journey to Crete in 1864.
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8. Officers & Gentlemen by Evelyn Waugh
A pithy account of the British in Crete in World War II.
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9. Adoration of the Magi by Damaskinos
A portrayal of the veneration of the infant Jesus (Museum of Religious Art, Irakleio).
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10. Frescoes of Moni Valsamonerou
Variously attributed to Damaskinos and 15th-century painter Konstantinos Rikos.
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