Glorious exploits (Paperback)
Lennon, Ferdia (Author)
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It's 412 BC, and Athens' invasion of Sicily has failed catastrophically. Thousands of Athenian soldiers are held captive in the quarries of Syracuse, starving, dejected, and hanging on by the slimmest of threads. Lampo and Gelon are local potters, young men with no work and barely two obols to rub together. When they take to visiting the nearby quarry, they discover prisoners who will, in desperation, recite lines from the plays of Euripides for scraps of bread and a scattering of olives. And so an idea is born: the men will put on Medea in the quarry. A proper performance to be sung of down t...
ISBN (SKU)
9780241998007
Pages
277
Weight
202g
Dimensions
198x129x18
Imprint
Penguin Books
Published
23, January, 2025
Genres
Fiction
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