Jill Paton Walsh – Farewell, Great King (epub)
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Name: Jill Paton Walsh – Farewell, Great King (epub)
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Title: Farewell, Great King
Author: Jill Paton Walsh
Language: English
Year: 2010
Subjects: Historical Fiction
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: Big Finish Productions
ISBN: 9781838684723
Total pages: N/A
Description:
Jill Paton Walsh’s first novel for adults is a remarkable achievement. It tells the story of one of the great epochs of history through the eyes of Themistokles the Athenian. With him we watch the birth pangs of Athenian democracy and live through his struggle to unite the Greeks in resistance to the might of Persia. Mrs Paton Walsh brings Themistokles vividly to life as a colourful, self-confident pragmatist, sure of the rightness of his policies and scornful of the stupidity of others, yet anxious for the good opinion of his childhood friend and political opponent Aristeides whose strict principles earned him the name of ‘the Just’. The clashing personalities of these two champions of democracy form a counterpoint to the wider conflicts between freedom and tyranny, between the progressive, democratic spirit of the Athenian and the disciplined conservatism of Sparta, between the fragmented but fiercely independent city-states of Greece and the monolithic empire of the Great Kings of Persia, which form the main themes of the novel. There is much exciting action, including a vivid description of the battle of Salamis and a fascinating account of everyday life in Athens at the time.
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