Nikos Kazantzakis is probably best known for his novel Zorba the Greek, which was made into an award-winning film starring Anthony Quinn in 1964. Yet, Kazantzakis is also infamous for The Last Temptation of Christ, a novel so provocative that it was placed on the Vatican’s Codex of Forbidden Books in 1954. For this novel and for some of his other works, Kazantzakis was nearly excommunicated from the Greek Orthodox Church and was denied a Christian burial in Greece when he died in 1957, although […]