The Hill of Kronos

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.