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Of Merchants & Heroes Paul Waters

Of Merchants & Heroes By Paul Waters

Of Merchants & Heroes by Paul Waters


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Summary

A stunning historical fiction debut in the same vein as Robert Graves and Mary Renault

Of Merchants & Heroes Summary

Of Merchants & Heroes by Paul Waters

A consuming story of love, loss and redemption set in the classical world of Rome and Greece, Of Merchants & Heroes is the story of a young man's pursuit of his father's murderer and and of the values and qualities he develops that will make him a man... a man capable of a deep, noble and enduring love.

At the end of the third century BC, as Republican Rome's long war with Carthage was at last drawing to a close, it was already threatened by a new enemy, Philip, the tyrant king of Macedon in the east... Into this turbulent world emerges our Roman hero, Marcus, whose father is brutally murdered by pirates on a journey from Italy to Corfu on a visit to his uncle. Fate takes him to some of the great cities of the Greco-Roman world at a time of major turbulence, where he learns much and finds love unexpectedly.

This is a remarkable, beautifully written debut that explores political and philosophical questions that are timeless - democracy and tyranny, war and self-defence, right and duty - as well as questions of love, loyalty and betrayal.

About Paul Waters

Paul Waters is a well-travelled classicist; though educated in Britain, he has lived much of his life abroad, including in Africa, America and Greece. His first novel, Of Merchants & Heroes, was published in 2008, followed by Cast Not the Day in 2009.

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GOR012832118
9780230530317
0230530311
Of Merchants & Heroes by Paul Waters
Used - Like New
Hardback
Pan Macmillan
20080201
480
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