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Walter | 26 comments This edition of Glorious Exploits is the 2025 paperback version of https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio.... Please merge these two editions and add the following information to the paperback version:

* Author(s) name(s): Lennon, Ferdia
* Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
* Publication Date Year: 2025
* Publication Date Month: January
* Publication Date Day: 23
* Page count: 304
* Description: It's 412 BC, and Athens' invasion of Sicily has failed catastrophically. Thousands of Athenian soldiers are held captive in the quarries of Syracuse, starving, dejected and hanging on by the slimmest of threads.

Lampo and Gelon are local potters, young men with no work and barely two obols to rub together. With not much to fill their time, they take to visiting the nearby quarry, where they discover prisoners who will, in desperation, recite lines from the plays of Euripides in return for scraps of bread and a scattering of olives.

And so an idea is born: the men will put on Medea in the quarry. A proper performance to be sung of down the ages. Because after all, you can hate the Athenians for invading your territory, but still love their poetry.

But as the performance draws near and the audacity of their enterprise dawns on them, it becomes difficult to distinguish between enemies and friends. And Lampo, whose ambitions have never stretched beyond having enough coin for the next jug of wine, finds his aspirations elevated, his heart entangled and his courage tested in ways he could never have imagined.

Glorious Exploits is an exhilarating and fiercely original story of brotherhood, war and art; and - in the face of the Gods' apparent indifference - of daring to dream of something bigger than ourselves.

Thank you!


message 2: by Valentine (last edited Feb 03, 2025 12:46PM) (new) - rated it 2 stars

Valentine | 1500 comments Hello Walter — another librarian sorted this out on January 31st; the paperback has been combined with the other editions, and the missing information added ~


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