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Crete : 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.
2. Erotokritos by Vinzentzos Kornaros

Ten thousand lines of epic poetry written in the 15-syllable heptametric style of Byzantium.
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).
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).
5. Paintings by Lefteris Kanakakis

Rethymno’s Contemporary Arts Centre houses a variety of Kanakakis’s work.
6. The Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault

A fictional retelling of the ancient legend of Theseus, Minos and the Minotaur.
7. The Cretan Journal of Edward Lear

Lear’s illustrated diary of a journey to Crete in 1864.
8. Officers & Gentlemen by Evelyn Waugh

A pithy account of the British in Crete in World War II.
9. Adoration of the Magi by Damaskinos

A portrayal of the veneration of the infant Jesus (Museum of Religious Art, Irakleio).
10. Frescoes of Moni Valsamonerou

Variously attributed to Damaskinos and 15th-century painter Konstantinos Rikos.