The vast tapestry of the Hellenic World unfolds in this stirring tale of two traders from the island of Rhodes who range across the wind-blown face of the beautiful and treacherous Mediterranean in search of adventure and profits.
Two cousins seek adventure-and their fortune, in the turbulent world after the death of Alexander the Great. Menedemos, nearly as perfect a physical specimen as Alexander himself, is the headstrong man of the sea, his eyes unable to resist the veiled beauties around him...including his young stepmother, whose voice and form he struggles to ignore. Sostratos, rangy and curious, chases knowledge as ardently as his cousin chases women, and manages their reading accounts with brisk efficiancy.
Now Menedemos and Sostratos find that war threatens their once free-trading world. The ruthless one-eyed general Antigonos, who draws on the strength of all Anatolia, and his rival Ptolemaios, who controls the endless wealth of Egypt are each ruthlessly maneuvering for advantage...and the neutrality of Rhodes, so essential to commerce, may be coming to an end.
Yet though war and rumors of war surround them, Sostratos and Menedemos need to turn a profit. To do so, they'll need to make their way past two war fleets, innumerable pirates, and enough danger and intrigue to satisfy even Homer. Unfortunately, it may be more than Sostratos and Menedemos can hope to survive.
I thought this would be interesting but when I was reading it I felt that the chapters were too long and it was boring. Because I gotten bored and the chapters were long I would read a little bit of the chapters and then go to the end of the chapters. I have only read the first couple of chapters in full. There are 12 chapters. I feel bad that I didn't like it because it is historical fiction about Ancient Greece.
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