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.
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'David Stuttard can make language crack and spark like an electric storm.' --Yorkshire Evening Press
'[Stuttard's] prose is admirably direct and accessible.' --The Guardian
Stuttard s writing is immensely readable and engaging. Empathetic descriptions of the often rather unpleasant- conditions for spectators and competitiors are interspersed with clear factual descriptions of the site and the events, as well as interludes of telescoped history from before and after 416BC which help to contextualize and explain the events themselves. --BBC History Magazine
David Stuttard is a classicist and author of 'An Introduction to Trojan Women' and co-author of 'AD410: The Year That Shook Rome' (British Museum Press, 2010).
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