Kazantzakis, is buried at the highest point of the Walls of Heraklion, the Martinengo Bastion, looking out over the mountains and sea of Crete. His epitaph reads “I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.” (Δεν ελπίζω τίποτα. Δε φοβούμαι τίποτα. Είμαι λέφτερος.). Kazantzakis developed this famously pithy phrasing of the philosophical ideal of cynicism, which dates back to at least the second century AD.