Killer of Men (Long War #1)
by Christian Cameron
Arimnestos
is a farm boy when war breaks out between the citizens of his native Plataea
and and their overbearing neighbours, Thebes. Standing in the battle line - the
wall of bronze - for the first time, alongside his father and brother, he
shares in a famous and unlikely victory. But after being knocked unconscious in
the melee, he awakes not a hero, but a slave. Betrayed by his jealous and
cowardly cousin, the freedom he fought for has now vanished, and he becomes the
property of a rich citizen of Ephesus. So begins an epic journey from slavery
that takes the young Arimnestos through a world poised on the brink of an epic
confrontation, as the emerging civilization of the Greeks starts to flex its
muscles against the established empire of the Persians. As he tries to make his
fortune and revenge himself on the man who disinherited him, Arimnestos
discovers that he has a talent that pays well in this new, violent world, for
like his hero, Achilles, he is 'a killer of men'.
Marathon: Freedom or Death (Long War #2)
by Christian Cameron
The
Battle of Marathon in 490 BC was one of history's great turning points - the
first time the Greeks managed to defeat the Persians in a pitched battle, it
enabled the rise of classical Greek civilization. As John Stuart Mill famously
put it, 'The Battle of Marathon, even as an event in British history, is more
important than the Battle of Hastings.' Without it, the modern world as we know
it would not exist. Christian Cameron's epic retelling of the battle will bring
it alive, with all of its human drama and tragedy, as never before. The Greeks
do not always behave well - in fact, many readers may come to see them as
ignorant and bigoted as compared to the multi-cultural Persians, who for some,
actually bring greater freedom - at least for a while. The heroic Militiades,
who led the Greeks at Marathon and then died in exile, a ruined man, was a
fatally flawed character. His opponent, The Persian King Darius, was guilty of
vaulting ambition and hubris, but he combined it with personal integrity and
vast generosity. And in the middle, torn between two cultures, one of which has
already made him a slave, we find Kineas - ancestor of the Kineas of the Tyrant
books - nicknamed 'Killer of Men' he will lead a decisive contingent of
infantry in the thickest of the battle.
Poseidon's Spear (Long War #3)
by Christian Cameron
Arimnestos
of Plataea is a man who has seen and done things that most men only dream
about. Sold into slavery as a boy, he fought his way to freedom - and then to
everlasting fame at the Battle of Marathon where the Greeks crushed the
invading Persians.
Sometimes,
however, a man's greatest triumph is followed by his greatest sorrow.Returning
to his farm, Arimnestos finds that his wife Euphoria has died in childbirth,
and in an instant his laurels turn to dust.
But the
gods are not finished with Arimnestos yet.
With
nothing left to live for, he throws himself from a cliff into the sea, only to
be pulled by strong arms from death's embrace. When he awakes he finds himself
chained to an oar in a Phoenician trireme.
And so
begins an epic journey that will take Arimnestos and a motley crew of fellow
galley slaves to the limits of their courage and beyond the edge of the known
world, in a quest for freedom, revenge - and a cargo so precious it is worth
dying for.
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