Three Days in the Monasteries of Cappadocia

“We were travelling amid the most bizarre shapes that the mind of man can conceive.” With a poet’s eye, George Seferis describes the haunting landscape and rock-hewn churches of Cappadocia as he rediscovers his ancestral land during a three-day excursion in 1950. Three Days in the Monasteries of Cappadocia, published here for the first time in English and complemented with Seferis’ own photographs, is an evocative word portrait describing the artistic heritage of a remote region. Seferis dedicated the text to the Creek ethnomusicologist Melpo Logotheti-Merlier, director of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies, and to her husband, Octave Merlier, director of the Institut Francais in Athens, the most dedicated Philhellene of the 20th century.