Eudoxos of the sword-scarred face, the courageous scion of Theon of Kyzikos, had captained daring voyages, held high public offices and faced heart-pounding danger. He had hunted and fished, galloped and sailed, gorged and reveled—and lain with...
This is an adventure novel, set during the reign of Xerxes, Originally published in 1961, it was the third written, and earliest in chronological order, of five loosely-related historical novels. The others are: "An Elephant for Aristotle" (1958),...
RHODES, 305 B.C.—CITY UNDER SIEGE
From the sea in thousands of ships they came, the brutal legions of Antigonos, a giant lusting for the power of Alexander the Great. For endless weeks and months they battered at the tiny island city, smashing...
When the World Emperor of the twenty-seventh century seals off Greece behind a force wall and Wiyem Flin's wife soon disappears, Knut Bulnes agrees to help look behind the wall for the woman, and the two find themselves in Classical...