Glorious Exploits

Resumen del libro

It's 412 BC, and Athens' invasion of Sicily has failed catastrophically. Thousands of Athenian soldiers are held captive in the quarries of Syracuse, starving, dejected, and hanging on by the slimmest of threads.

Lampo and Gelon are local potters, young men with no work and barely two obols to rub together. When they take to visiting the nearby quarry, they discover prisoners who will, in desperation, recite lines from the plays of Euripides for scraps of bread and a scattering of olives.

And so an idea is born: the men will put on Medea in the quarry.

A proper performance to be sung of down the ages. Because after all, you can hate the Athenians for invading your territory, but still love their poetry.

But as the audacity of their enterprise dawns on them, it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish between enemies and friends. As the performance draws near, the men will find their courage tested in ways they could never have imagined ...

Biografía del autor

Ferdia Lennon es un escritor dublinés de madre irlandesa y padre libio. Estudió Historia y Clásicas en UCD (University College Dublin) y en la universidad de Ámsterdam, e hizo un máster de Ficción en Prosa en la prestigiosa universidad de East Anglia. Ha publicado relatos en The Irish Times, Litro Magazine y The Stinging Fly, y ha sido nominado a premios de ficción breve como el Sean O' Faolain Short Story Prize y el Galley Beggar Short Story Prize. Su relato x{0026}lt;i A Man Came to My Doorx{0026}lt;/i ganó el Hennessy Literary Award en la categoría Emerging Fiction. Después de muchos años en París, donde ejercía como profesor en la UPEC, Ferdia Lennon vive en Norwich con su mujer y su hijo. x{0026}lt;i x{0026}lt;b Deus Exx{0026}lt;/b x{0026}lt;/i es su primera novela.