SYNOPSIS: The novel can not start with more force, The earthquake that struck Sparta in the year 464 ad. Where Damatria lost all his family and is raped by a slave who leaves ilota pregnant. The novel chronicles the fortunes of this unwanted child, Antalcidas, and his family. The mother who hates his brother spoiled, epithelial, step-parents, but also those who favored his erastes, the old man and his wife Zeuxippus the beautiful Spartan Andreia. And especially the city, the Spartan state with its unique lifestyle.
all culminated in his decisive battle where 300 Spartans Antalcidas and others are also located in the rocky island of Sphacteria, commanded by his brother epithelium. A historic event occurred in the early years of the war Peloponnese.
AUTHOR:
Nicholas Nicastro was born in 1963 in Astoria, New York (United States). Before taking up writing led a restless life and varied: a BA in English Literature in 1985 Films in 1991, Archaeology in 1996 and Psychology in 2003. And all this while collected works: he has served as film critic, a hospital orderly, a reporter, archivist, professional speaker, psychologist, animal and home seller. Undoubtedly, this experience has been reflected in his literary output, his works demonstrate a deep knowledge of the spirit and miseries human.
Nicastro began his literary work with a trilogy about John Paul Jones, the celebrated hero of the American War of Independence. In a genre like the ship, dominated mostly by the English point of view, Nicastro offers an attractive change of perspective.
was his next novel, Empire of Ashes , which released him and began his cycle of novels set in ancient Greece. Here is the story of Alexander the Great from the viewpoint of a skeptic Athenian soldier who must destroy the myth of Alexander to save himself from the charge of sacrilege. His next novel, Sons of Sparta , offers us a similar tone realism, the narrative of the first surrender of the Spartans. And Antigone's Wake, his last novel, takes us back to the imperial Athens, with the protagonist and playwright Sophocles thread.
Nicholas Nicastro was born in 1963 in Astoria, New York (United States). Before taking up writing led a restless life and varied: a BA in English Literature in 1985 Films in 1991, Archaeology in 1996 and Psychology in 2003. And all this while collected works: he has served as film critic, a hospital orderly, a reporter, archivist, professional speaker, psychologist, animal and home seller. Undoubtedly, this experience has been reflected in his literary output, his works demonstrate a deep knowledge of the spirit and miseries human. Nicastro began his literary work with a trilogy about John Paul Jones, the celebrated hero of the American War of Independence. In a genre like the ship, dominated mostly by the English point of view, Nicastro offers an attractive change of perspective.
was his next novel, Empire of Ashes , which released him and began his cycle of novels set in ancient Greece. Here is the story of Alexander the Great from the viewpoint of a skeptic Athenian soldier who must destroy the myth of Alexander to save himself from the charge of sacrilege. His next novel, Sons of Sparta , offers us a similar tone realism, the narrative of the first surrender of the Spartans. And Antigone's Wake, his last novel, takes us back to the imperial Athens, with the protagonist and playwright Sophocles thread.
CRITICAL:
We face a very good historical novel. Written with skill and pace, with an interesting plot that allows us to delve into the life and customs of Sparta clásica.Esparta fabulous, fascist state paradigm against the "democratic" Athens. But is she? The Athens of Draco was not very different from the Sparta of Lycurgus. Was trade and especially the introduction of money (in Sparta never been neither one nor the other) favored by Solon (one of the Seven Sages of Greece) which enabled the evolution of Athens to a political society more complex compleja.Más yes, but the same structure basic of all human society: The brutal exploitation of man by the release of Sparta Man. say that everything was basic and simple: The land and sangre.Los Spartan slaves (helots) were living a miserable life, like those of Athens. For against their masters, the hómoioi or equal, neither had an enviable life, slaves to turn the state of the harsh laws and brutal costumbres.El author, a psychology graduate, in this novel suggests an interesting fact because the Spartans could endure such a life. Spartan education, the Agogo, made them perfect as modern sadomasoquistas.Y psicokillers, death, pain, both foreign as itself caused them great sexual pleasure. No wonder they fight the Spartan hoplites and even spliced \u200b\u200bbatallas.El man ejaculated during an amazing animal.
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