Goat Song: A Novel of Ancient Greece

'Frank Yerby's Goat Song' describes ancient Athens and Sparta and the Peloponnesian War with Athens.
ARISTON THE SPARTAN: LOVER, WARRIOR, PASSIONATE ADVENTURER
Conceived in brutal lust, Ariston was both blessed and cursed with a beauty that brought suffering and death to everyone he loved. Proud women fought with harlots for his embraces. Men followed him blindly where he led. But Ariston was himself slave to an imperious destiny, driven relentlessly toward a gate few men would dare to face...

This is the story of a man who rises from a boyhood in the perfumed brothels of Greece to become one of the greatest warrior heroes of the ancient world... The hero of the novel is Ariston who was raised a Spartan, was sold as a slave to Athens and then was adopted by a wealthy Athenian. The storyline could have been a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles or Euripides. In fact both of these playwrights play a role in the novel along with Socrates, Plato, Alkibiades, and other notables of classical Greece.

Aventura / Crônicas / Drama / Ficção / História / História Geral / Literatura Estrangeira / Política / Romance / Suspense e Mistério / Comunicação