Η ασπίδα των Θερμοπυλών

The seer Megistias receives an oracle from Zeus about war, love, hatred, heroism, sacrifice and treason, and about a divine shield that will join the fates of three men and two women. It falls to the brave Spartan Teleutias, the cheerful, clever Athenian Nausinous and the Persian commander Mardonius, along with the beautiful Spartan Helen and Dianeira of Miletus, who fights to be free and is torn between the two Greeks. The story moves from Olympia to Mardonius's banquets, from the congress at the Isthmus with Leonidas and Themistocles to Xerxes's royal trireme at Tempe, and into the Spartan phalanx at Thermopylae and Plataea.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

347 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, War, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Greece, 494–478 BC

First published

2008 by Ιωλκός

ISBN

9789604265046 (original)