„Even now, Mount Athos is the primordial castle of Europe”. The Relationship between Human Being and Nature in Theodor Däubler’s travel feuilleton The Holy Mountain Athos

Abstract

This article focuses on a very special place in the Mediterranean, namely the monastic republic of the Mount Athos (Chalkidiki, Greece). Specifically, in Theodor Däuber’s travel article The Holy Mountain Athos, the human-nature relationship is examined as close reading, and the importance of Athos in the author’s private mythology is illuminated.