This absorbing narrative, told from a spectator's viewpoint, revolves around the Games of 416 BC - a turning point in Greek politics when a cold war between Athens and other major cities was about to erupt into bloody fighting. The reader vividly experiences what it was like to be there, to witness the rituals, official banquets, bloody contests, victory celebrations and subsequent political parleys.
David Stuttard taught Classics for eleven years in Edinburgh, St
Andrews and York, and has written numerous books on the Classical
world including Greek Mythology: A Traveller’s Guide from Mount
Olympus to Troy, A History of Ancient Greece in Fifty Lives and The
Romans Who Shaped Britain (with Sam Moorhead), all published by
Thames & Hudson. He is the founder of the theatre company Actors of
Dionysus and a Fellow
of Goodenough College, London.
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