The Athenian Women
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2018
Europa Editions (Verlag)
978-1-60945-419-7 (ISBN)
Europa Editions (Verlag)
978-1-60945-419-7 (ISBN)
The Athenian Women offers a powerful vision of class struggle, the subjugation of women, and the courage needed to change the course of history.
Athens, 411 BC. In the countryside, two veterans, Trasillo and Polemone, live in adjacent cottages. Years earlier they fought together in the infamous battle of Mantinea, where Athens was crushed by Sparta. The two survivors now live as humble farmers, constantly putting off the decision to find husbands for their two daughters, Glicera and Charis, who are beginning to get impatient. But for the two old men the only thing that matters is politics. Athens invented democracy, and they must defend it against the rich oligarchs who plot to reinstate their tyrannical rule...
Athens, 411 BC. In the countryside, two veterans, Trasillo and Polemone, live in adjacent cottages. Years earlier they fought together in the infamous battle of Mantinea, where Athens was crushed by Sparta. The two survivors now live as humble farmers, constantly putting off the decision to find husbands for their two daughters, Glicera and Charis, who are beginning to get impatient. But for the two old men the only thing that matters is politics. Athens invented democracy, and they must defend it against the rich oligarchs who plot to reinstate their tyrannical rule...
Alessandro Barbero is the author of The Battle: A New History of Waterloo (Atlantic Books), Other People's Wars, winner of the Strega Prize for Fiction, and The Eyes of Venice (Europa, 2012). He is a renowned historian whose two-volume history of the Battle of Lepanto is considered to be the definitive text on the subject. He teaches Medieval History at the University of Eastern Piedmont in Vercelli, Italy. Antony Shugaar is the author of I Lie for a Living and Latitude Zero: Tales of the Equator. For Europa Editions he has translated among others novels by Massimo Carlotto, Stefano Benni, Domenico Starnone, and Carmine Abate.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.03.2018 |
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| Übersetzer | Antony Shugaar |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Historische Romane |
| Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller | |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-60945-419-7 / 1609454197 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-60945-419-7 / 9781609454197 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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