The Priestess and the Slave
2009
First Published
4.00
Average Rating
133
Number of Pages
A tale of honor and dishonor, of love, pain, madness, and endurance, told with painstaking historical and archaeological accuracy. Set in Classical Greece in the fifth century BC, The Priestess and the Slave conveys the extraordinary history of the time through the eyes of two narrators - a Delphic Pythia deeply embroiled in the political turmoil earlier in the century, and a young slavewoman, some decades later, living through the terrible plague in Athens and the seemingly endless war against the invincible hoplites of Sparta. Vivid, gritty, and emotionally moving.
Avg Rating
4.00
Number of Ratings
22
5 STARS
36%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
18%
2 STARS
9%
1 STARS
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