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The Wandering King by author Stephen Marte is based on events described in The Histories by Herodotus. People may have heard the story about King Leonidas and the famous last stand of the 300 Spartans at the pass of Thermopylae, but Herodotus' best stories have never been told-till now. Though Leonidas is a character in The Wandering King, this is not his story. The novel is told from the perspective of Leonidas' nephew, Euryanax; a little known member of Sparta's royal family. The book begins, "I am called Euryanax. In the Dorian tongue, eury means 'wandering' and anax means 'king.' The Wandering King. From my name, comes my story." The first book in the series, Summer, Harvest," War, begins 25 years before the famous Battle of Marathon and the start of the Greco-Persian Wars. Euryanax's father Dorieus, a brother of Leonidas, was disappointed when his father, King Anaxandridas, died and the ephors selected his elder brother Cleomenes as the next King of Sparta. Dorieus left Greece with his wife Phile, son Euryanax, and a small expedition of Lacedaemonians to build a colony in Libya. Go to war with Euryanax as he takes part in the siege of the Phoenician stronghold at Oea (modern Tripoli). Adventure with him to the city of ships, merchants and pornai, Corinth. Sail alongside this little-known prince of Sparta as he fights Illyrian pirates in the Ionian Sea, competes in the Pythian Games, and journeys to the center of earth where he learns his fate from the Delphic Oracle. Exotic locales and peoples, action and adventure, romance and revenge, land battles and sea battles, tribal rituals and Olympic-style games; The Wandering King has all this and more. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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As an old man, he tells his story to his granddaughter, Alala. This promises to be a great series: the story of Euryanax, wandering king, Prince and nephew of THE Leonidas. When his grandfather, Anaxandridas, one of the two Spartan kings, dies, his father Doreius is passed over as the successor, so Doreius leads a group of Spartans to found a colony in Libya. We see how they try to set up their colony in a beautiful spot, but are betrayed by the king who had invited them there and defeated by Persians and Medes, who occupy the nearby area. Euryanax loses a dear friend, Battus, a boy from a local tribe, and finds a Persian Princess with whom he falls in love. The Spartans venture to Delphi after picking up a ship at Corinth. A priest just happens to appear and to present them with a destination: Eryx in Sicily. Are he and his message genuine? Or is he a charlatan?
The prophecy they are given by the Pythia is ambiguous:
Hear your fate, Spartans of the wide spaces,
Before you are two roads, different from other places:
One leading to an honorable city of freedom,
The other to the realm of Hades, which mortals shun.
You may travel to one through honor and bravery;
The other through greed sand destruction most cowardly;
Whichever path thou wilt take, hear me clearly,
Thou shalt conquer all before thee.
The pacing was very good; I enjoyed the fight scenes--on both land and sea--and the athletic contests at Delphi. There were a few anachronisms, e.g., potatoes, but nothing spoiled the novel. I plan on continuing the story. Recommended. ( )