Nikos Kazantzakis is no stranger to the heroes of Greek antiquity. In this historical novel based on the life of Alexander the Great, Kazantzakis has drawn on both the rich tradition of Greek legend and the documented manuscripts from the archives of history to recreate an Alexander in all his many-faceted images Alexander the god; Alexander the descendant of Heracles performing the twelve labors; Alexander the mystic, the daring visionary destined to carry out a divine mission; Alexander the flesh-and-blood mortal who, on occasion, is not above the common soldier s brawling and drinking....

Blending historical fact and classical myth, the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ transports the reader 3,000 years into the past, to a pivotal point in history: the final days before the ancient kingdom of Minoan Crete is to be conquered and supplanted by the emerging city-state of Athens. Translated by Theodora Vasils and Themi Vasils.
The familiar figures who peopled that ancient world -- King Minos, Theseus and Ariadne, the Minotaur, Diadalos and Ikaros -- fill the pages of this novel with lifelike immediacy.
Written originally for an Athenian youth...

This autobiographical novel is one of the last things written by Kazantzakis before he died in 1957. It paints a vivid picture of his childhood in Crete, and then steadily grows into a spiritual quest that takes him to Italy, Jerusalem, Paris, Vienna, Berlin and Russia.

Against the background of the Greek civil war of the late 1940s, Captain Drakos, son of the local priest Father Yanaros, has taken to the mountains with a group of villagers and joined the Communist rebels. It is Holy Week and Father Yanaros feels that he himself is bearing the sins of the world.

Kazantzakis's classic novel, blacklisted by the Vatican, filmed by Scorsese, has been labelled heretical, blasphemous and a masterpiece. His Christ is an epic conception, wholly original.

This is Kazantzakis's modern Iliad. Set in late-19th-century Crete, when a new uprising takes place to rival those of 1854, 1866 and 1878. In the village of Megalokastro, a Cretan resistance fighter named Captain Michales, is matched by the Turkish bey, his blood-brother.

The inhabitants of a Greek village, ruled by the Turks, plan to enact the life of Christ in a mystery play but are overwhelmed by their task. A group of refugees, fleeing from the ruins of their plundered homes, arrive asking for protection - and suddenly the drama of the Passion becomes reality.

Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives, he meets Alexis Zorba, a middle-aged Greek man with a zest for life. As their friendship develops, the Englishman is gradually won over, transformed and inspired along with the reader.

Kazantzakisovo dílo Spasitelé Boha přináší svérázný druh duchovních cvičení ve snaze o poznání Boha a je velmi důležité pro pochopení jeho myšlení a tvorby.
Povinností Spasitele Boha neboli člověka je, aby se připravil dříve, než se vydá na cestu k vlastnímu cíli. Před ním je namáhavé stoupání vzhůru, které má pět stupňů v podobě duchovních cviků – rozjímání, vyložených v pěti stejnojmenných kapitolách: Příprava, Pouť, Vidina, Konání a Ticho. Po přípravě, kdy už stanovil své povinnosti, člověk může žít a tvořit,...