Seven days of war and life... In a narrow passage of Mount Callidromos by the sea, known as Thermopylae, far from their homeland, in 480 B.C., three hundred elite Spartan warriors repelled the thousands of soldiers of the Persian invader and bravely gave their lives, selflessly serving democracy and freedom. A simple inscription on a tombstone shows the place where they are buried.
Pressfield, inspired by that tombstone, has wonderfully combined knowledge with imagination. "Gates of Fire," where the narrator is the sole survivor of that epic battle, an auxiliary of the Spartan infantry who was found half-dead beneath a chariot and taken captive, is an exquisite description of the initiation of a man and women who gifted this immortality to civilization.
Highlighting the epic battle, "Gates of Fire" weaves history, mystery, and tragic love into a literary work that brings the Homeric tradition into the twenty-first century.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
Manufacturer
- Author
- Steven Pressfield
- Publisher
- Patakis
- Original Title
- Gates of Fire
- Type
- Historical Novel
- Subtitle
- An epic novel about the battle of Thermopylae
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 549
- Release Date
- 6/2001
- Publication Date
- 2001
- Dimensions
- 15x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789601600611
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