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The gates of Athens / Conn Iggulden.

Iggulden, Conn, (author.).

Summary:

"In ancient Greece an army of slaves gathers on the plains of Marathon...Under Darius the Great, King of Kings, the mighty Persian army--swollen by 10,000 warriors known as The Immortals--have come to subjugate the Greeks. In their path, vastly outnumbered, stands an army of freeborn Athenians. Among them is a clever, fearsome, and cunning soldier-statesman, Xanthippus. Against all odds, the Athenians emerge victorious. Yet people soon forget that freedom is bought with blood. Ten years later, Xanthippus watches helplessly as Athens succumbs to the bitter politics of factionalism. Traitors and exiles abound. Trust is at a low ebb when the Persians cross the Hellespont in ever greater numbers in their second attempt to raze Athens to the ground. Facing overwhelming forces by land and sea, the Athenians call on their Spartan allies for assistance--to delay the Persians at the treacherous pass of Thermopylae"-- Publisher's description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781643136660 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 1643136666 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 443 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2021.

Content descriptions

General Note:
First published in a slightly different form in the United Kingdom by Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Books, in 2020.
"A novel"--Jacket.
Subject: Darius I, King of Persia, 548 B.C.-485 B.C. > Fiction.
Kings and rulers > Fiction.
Marathon, Battle of, Greece, 490 B.C > Fiction.
Thermopylae, Battle of, Greece, 480 B.C > Fiction.
Greece > History > Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C. > Fiction.
Athens (Greece) > History > Fiction.
Sparta (Extinct city) > History > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
War fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.

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  • 1 current hold with 1 total copy.
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