![]() ![]() He'd prefer not to go near Pythax, the brutally tough chief of the city guard. It would definitely help if the main suspect weren't Xanthippus, a leading conservative and, worst of all, the father of Pericles.īut most of all, what Nicolaos really needs is to shake off his irritating twelve-year-old brother, Socrates, who keeps making helpful suggestions. In this wonderfully approachable, historically rich novel, Athens is brought vividly to life in a mystery engaging from the first page to last. ![]() ![]() Nicolaos would like to get closer (much closer) to Diotima, the intelligent and annoyingly virgin priestess of Artemis. The Pericles Commission is the first in an exciting new series by first-time novelist Gary Corby, who takes us to Ancient Greece at one of the most exciting times in history. Pericles is looking over his shoulder, critiquing his every move. He's totally confident he'll succeed in finding him. Nicolaos walks the mean streets of classical Athens in search of a killer. Pericles commissions the clever young Nicolaos to expose the assassin. ![]() It looks very much as if Ephialtes was assassinated to stifle the world's first democracy at its birth.īut Ephialtes has a lieutenant: a rising young politician by the name of Pericles. This one is the politician Ephialtes, who only days before had turned Athens into a democracy, and with it, kick-started western civilization. Early one bright, clear morning in Athens, 461 B.C., a dead man falls from the sky, landing at the feet of Nicolaos. ![]()
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