There, we have Themistocles, Aristides, Miltiades and Xanthippus all in the field. Marathon in 490 BC – the fennel field – was the origin point for me. Why did you pick him as one of your heroes for the series? There are many great names from the Persian Wars (eg Aristides, Miltiades, Themistocles, Pausanias and of course, Leonidas), all of whom feature strongly in your novels, but Xanthippus is probably less well-known. It is the foundation of Greece at Delos, the origin of the west. My current series is the golden thread – those who stood at Marathon and Salamis, on to Pericles and war with Sparta. I told it in Falcon of Sparta and in the process, realised I was enjoying ancient Greece.
His eyewitness story of ten thousand Greek mercenaries fighting their way home is wonderful. That held true for almost twenty years, until I came across the extraordinary story of Xenophon.
Lion of Macedon was so ridiculously good it meant I could never touch the period. I avoided Greece for the longest time because of David Gemmell’s heroic fantasy on Alexander the Great. Wars of the Roses came from Henry VI being in a coma for 18 months, while Dunstan was the discovery that one man had known seven kings! History starts yesterday – and contains all the great tales.
With Caesar, it was discovering he was captured by pirates with Genghis, being left to die by his tribe. I look for stories first, before everything. You’ve written about ancient Rome, the Mongols, the Wars of the Roses and Early England, but in the last few years turned your attention to ancient Greece with Protector, why did you choose this period? OL19981156W Page_number_confidence 91.20 Pages 502 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211206065203 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 369 Scandate 20211204055628 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780425275443 Tts_version 4.Conn Iggulden, welcome to Aspects of History. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:16:56 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA40301417 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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