“With what ease populations moved about in ancient Greek lands, in the world conquered and Hellenized by Alexander, the wide elbow room of Rome and the Byzantine Empire!”
— Daniel Mendelsohn quoting the shamelessly seductive Patrick Leigh Fermor‘s (guess why the former, or/and the latter, loved Crete so much) great article in The New York Review of Books on Fermor’s The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos.
Opportune time to talk about Macedonia, I guess, too.
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