☑ Tides Of War Steven Pressfield

Jason a disciple of socrates is asked to help defend polemides infamous in athens as the man who assassinated alcibiades. The hero of tides of war is the real life athenian general lover and all around most notorious renegade of all time alcibiades.

Tides Of War By Steven Pressfield Kirkus Reviews

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Despite the vaunted claims for periclean democracy he is undoubtedly first among equals a great warrior and an impressive physical specimen to boot.

Tides of war steven pressfield. As a fighting commander on land and sea alcibiades was never defeated. The beauty of his person easily won over those previously disposed and disarmed even those who abhorred his. In the time before homer the legendary theseus king of athens journeys to the nation of proud female warriors whom the greeks called amazons.

He has a unique ability to develop characters and take the reader into the action where every word is carefully chosen from a vast and rich vocabulary. The story is awesome as are the characters. The story is told by jason who is defending both socrates and polemides the man who is accused of murdering alcibiades.

An epic of love and war last of the amazons is a gripping imaginative novel of the ancient world filled with pressfields trademark extraordinary attention to detail. With pressfield i have decided not to focus on the battles like the 8th grader. Predisposed to despise polemides for his actions jason is taken by the mans graciousness his open admission of his crimes and the parallels between his and jasons service in the war.

Yet his city athens condemned him to death not once but twice. In tides of war he tells the tale of athenian soldier extraordinaire alcibiades. Steven pressfield is the internationally best selling author of gates of fire and tides of war.

Yet tides of war is a fascinating book. The war of art tides of war has pressfields always present skill as both a writer and storyteller. The first time he defected to athens arch enemy sparta.

Steven pressfield himself declared that tides of war was his least critically acclaimed book as it is so different from gates of fire. Pressfield produces an even greater spectacleand in its honest incremental way an even greater heart tuggerthan in his acclaimed tale of the battle of thermopylae gates of fire 1999. Jason son of alexicles lived almost to 92 in the prime of that long life having fought for athens and been close friend.

Steven pressfield tells the story of the heroes of war in ancient greece with considerable skill and a sense for the detail and ambiance of the time in his book tides of war. Tides of war is a 2000 novel by steven pressfield chronicling the peloponnesian war. After chronicling the spartan stand at thermopylae in his audacious gates of fire steven pressfield once again proves that its all greek to him.

While the latter had characters who were admirable except for the somewhat villain polynikes.