Nikias
I hesitated a bit when it came to recommending Nikias. There are a LOT of typos and a few continuity issues. When reading on my Kindle, I can’t help but highlight the typos and the issues, and when I scroll through the pages there is a fair amount of highlighting. But that said, there is a great story. It is rather epic in many respects and somewhat unpredictable. There are aspects of the time that make a modern reader squirm – as in the common practice of adolescents being mentored by adult men. It’s a little uncomfortable. But that was the reality of ancient Greece. If a story is set in that time, that’s what was going on. And the story does move on from that to some extent. The descriptions of the Olympic games, the Oracle of Dephi, ancient warfare… the story successfully crafts a time and place.
The author, Mark Roeder, has a lot of fans. He has self-published many, many books. They are rather uneven in quality. Some are great. Some are middling. Some aren’t great. Many have a lot of typos which don’t serve the stories very well. But when he is at his best, he tells a great story. Nikias is one of his historical tales and ultimately, I found it worth the read.
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Nikias is amazed by the speed of Alkides, who he races against in the Isthmian games. He even wonders if the older boy is the god Apollo in disguise. At Delphi, where they race again, he realizes Alkides is only a boy, although a rather amazing boy.
While in Delphi, Nikias receives a disturbing prophecy from the oracle and his life and that of Alkides become entwined. Nikias knows that he must lose all he loves to gain the deepest desire of his heart, but what is that desire and is it worth the cost?
Nikias is a story of young love in Ancient Greece, during the war between Athens and Sparta.
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Nikias is amazed by the speed of Alkides, who he races against in the Isthmian games. He even wonders if the older boy is the god Apollo in disguise. At Delphi, where they race again, he realizes Alkides is only a boy, although a rather amazing boy.
While in Delphi, Nikias receives a disturbing prophecy from the oracle and his life and that of Alkides become entwined. Nikias knows that he must lose all he loves to gain the deepest desire of his heart, but what is that desire and is it worth the cost?
Nikias is a story of young love in Ancient Greece, during the war between Athens and Sparta.
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