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Ladataan... Leonidas of Sparta: A Peerless PeerTekijä: Helena P Schrader
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. I really enjoyed this, the author brings to life the people and places of sparta and her enemies creating just the right combo of historic detail and page turning anticipation ! ( ) Continuation of Schrader's fictional biography of King Leonidas, segueing neatly from the first volume in the trilogy. Completely engrossing, and so marvelous how the author took whatever crumbs we know of Leonidas's life at this stage and kneaded them together into such an enjoyable and plausible story. Leonidas is now out of the agoge and on active duty. He has his Baptism of blood at his first combat experience. Rising from the ranks, he is given his first taste of command: leading a handful of men. We are given a good description of his inner state while facing the Argives. He is appalled at so much wanton destruction at what he calls the "Farm of Horrors". For the most part the novel concentrates on his personal life on active duty and beyond. Leonidas rises to more responsibility in the military command structure and after viewing a particularly gruesome Persian retaliation realizes Hellas must band together and fight the Persian menace. I enjoyed reading his impressions of Athens on a visit there with a fellow soldier. His leadership of a convoy of Corinthian grain ships followed by an exciting sea battle w/ Phoenician triremes were impressive. The characters were developed well, even some of the more minor ones. Leonidas is not a "superman" although his cleverness, compassion, and charisma are beginning to be revealed; he does have self-doubts and could even be priggish and over scrupulous in trying to be a "peerless Peer." Very highly recommended. näyttää 2/2 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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Sparta at the start of the fifth century BC is in crisis. The Argives are attacking Sparta's vulnerable island of Kythera, but King Cleomenes is more interested in meddling in Athenian affairs. His co-monarch, King Demaratus, opposes Cleomenes' ambitions, and soon the kings are at each other's throats. Exploiting this internal conflict, Corinth launches a challenge to Spartan control of the Peloponnesian League, while across the Aegean Sea, the Greek cities of Ionia are in rebellion against Persia -- and pleading for Spartan aid. King Cleomenes' youngest half-brother Leonidas has only just attained citizenship. He has no reason to expect that this revolt will shape his destiny. At twenty-one, Leonidas is just an ordinary ranker in the Spartan army, less interested in high politics than putting his private life in order. He needs to find reliable tenants to restore his ruined estate, and, most important, to find the right woman to be his bride. Meanwhile, his niece Gorgo is growing up. Not particularly pretty, she is, nevertheless, precocious and courageous -- qualities that get her into trouble more than once. This is the story of both Leonidas and Gorgo in the years before Leonidas becomes king of Sparta and before the first Persian invasion of Greece sets Leonidas on the road to Thermopylae. This is the second book in a trilogy of biographical novels about Leonidas and Gorgo. The first book, A Boy of the Agoge, described Leonidas's childhood in Sparta's infamous public school. This second book focuses on his years as an ordinary citizen, and the third will describe his reign and death. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Google Books — Ladataan... LajityypitMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Arvio (tähdet)Keskiarvo:
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