Lion: Book 1 of The Golden Age: 'Brings war in the ancient world to vivid, gritty and bloody life' ANTHONY RICHES

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Both instalments of his Athenian series, ­The Gates of Athens and Protector, and his recent Golden Age series, Lion and Empire, are Sunday Times bestsellers. Here, Julius Caesar has been assassinated and a bloody revenge from a mourning nation is bound to be executed.

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It jerked a bit as a reader, as it didn't seem it fit his character arc, and I felt left a bit of an odd ending. Now they will be re-united by a shockwave from the North where a gladiator, Spartacus is building an army of 70000 slaves. Though it seems a dated idea now, I began teaching when boys were told only girls were good at English, despite the great names that must spring to mind after that statement. About the Author: Conn Iggulden is one of the most successful authors of historical fiction writing today.The novel follows on directly from the author’s Protector which saw Greek victory in the Persian Wars and focussed on the Athenian leaders Aristides and Xanthippus, and the Spartan general Pausanias. Rather, drab addition to the Greek series focusing on the rise to fame of Pericles and another drubbing of the Persians who are so inept you wonder how they found their way out of bed each day. There're more subtle interpersonal relationship shit going on there, but it's not as grand as the summary promises readers. Pericles wondered how many of his friends would choose Cimon over him, or whether it was just his wife.

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g. Cimon hearing about the death of Xerxes from some hoplites and that the king seemed to have died by his own guards' hands. His descriptions of fighting and other violence wrote Warshaw, “are as convincing as they are horrific.The horror of what soldiers faced in the days of hand to hand combat is drawn in enough detail to appreciate it without being too gory, thankfully. Iggulden's debut book was The Gates of Rome, the first in a currently five-part series entitled Emperor. The book concentrates on an aging Roman Empire and the early days of Julius Caesar who would become the world’s most powerful ruler. Again, so much of the focus was around getting to understand Pericles, his thoughts, his ambitions, his relationships. My father loved working with wood and equations, but he also recited ‘Vitai Lampada’ with a gleam in his eye and that matters, frankly.