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Title: Tides of War by Steven Pressfield ISBN: 0-553-38139-3 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.77 (88 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Read Thucydides Instead
Comment: I have not read Gates of Fire; and after enduring this clunker, I likely never will. This book drowns from the weight of its gimicky narrative. The "story," ostensibly about Alcibiades, is related by his assassin (Polymides) to his advocate (Jason) to his grandson. While this device, in the hands of a different author, could provide a source of narrative tension, in Pressfield's it fizzles. Jason's and Polymides's voices are identical (and thus confusing); and neither character offers a valuable or interesting perspective on the events described. The grandson is a thinly-disguised hook for hanging "back in those days" expository lumps, and he vanishes after page 3.
The result of filtering the narrative through four layers is to place distance between the reader and the story. There are no "characters" in this book -- only names on a page. They hop from battle to plague to crisis in pretty much the same way that their counterparts in Thucydides do. Except that Thucydides was a witness (and minor moving actor) in the Spartan War. For that reason, I would recommend his history over Pressfield's -- for that is what this book is, history, and nothing more.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thucydides Anew
Comment: Tides of War is far deeper in thought than Gates of Fire. It gives the whole feeling of a lost golden age. Obviously it will not be found by everyone to be as heroic as Gates of Fire, but the characters and the story could certainly pass as very real for our own age.
Rating: 5
Summary: i liked it
Comment: i really took a liking to ancient greece after i had a class on western civilization last year. this goes into the war, not entirely factual though, and gives you a good idea of what took place. and the characters were great. it really makes you want to keep reading
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Title: Gates of Fire : An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield ISBN: 0553580531 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 31 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Last of the Amazons by Steven Pressfield ISBN: 0553382047 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Ten Thousand: A Novel of Ancient Greece by Michael Curtis Ford ISBN: 0312269463 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Gods and Legions: A Novel of the Roman Empire by Michael Curtis Ford ISBN: 0312275382 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough ISBN: 0380710811 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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