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“Democracy has fallen and Syracuse is in control of the tyrant, Dionysius, who the people of Syracuse have reluctantly accepted because he is a strong leader who provides resistance against the looming threat of Carthage. But what the novel is really about is an Athenian tragic actor, his pursuit of drama and desire to keep these plays going and reinterpret them. What it does rather interestingly is dramatize creative work within a corrupt power structure, and maybe the ambivalences or the tensions in that, because in Syracuse at that time you couldn’t operate without some degree of approval from the leader.” Read more...
Historical Novels Set During the Classical Era
Ferdia Lennon, Novelist
