I, Demokedes - Couverture souple

Wright, Cj

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1453766529 ISBN 13 : 9781453766521

Editeur : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010

Synopsis

Demokedes was a Greek physician--possibly a specialist in sports' medicine--who lived through the hinge period around 500 BCE.--an era of rapid and radical change from Italy to China. It is in Book Three of the Histories of Herodotus that we learn of the doctor's peregrinations from his home in Italy to Athens, to Ionia, to the very heart of the emerging Persian empire, and finally many years later back to his hometown of Kroton. Along the way he has encounters the major celebrities of that world: sports heroes, playwrights, poets, philosophers, tyrants, and King Darius of Persia. Indeed, after witnessing his employer--Polykrates, the tyrant of Samos--being brutally mutilated and then murdered by a Persian satrap, Demokedes is forced into the service of Darius as court physician. Some years later, Darius assigns Demokedes to lead a contingent of Persians whose assignment it is to survey the coastal regions of Greece in preparation for the eventual attempt by Darius to conquer the Greek lands and add them to his empire. By a clever ruse, Demokedes escapes from his Persian chaperones and returns home--where he immediately marries the daughter of the greatest sports hero of antiquity--Milo of Kroton

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

C.J. Wright has had a lifelong passion for history, the whole messy but oh-so-tasty Dagwood sandwich of history with its varied components: literature, the visual arts, science, music, food, economics, governmental systems, language, athletics, manners and morals, religion, and more. Periods of rapid and radical transition in history--such as the one Demokedes witnessed--have been of particular interest to C.J., especially as he is becoming increasingly aware of major temporal tectonic shifts disturbing his twilight years.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1453766529
• ISBN 13: 9781453766521
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne