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THE PERICLES COMMISSION
By: Gary Corby
Minotaur Books
October 2010
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Featuring: Nicolaos; Pericles
304 pages
ISBN: 0312599021
EAN: 9780312599027
Hardcover
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Early one bright, clear morning in Athens, 461 B.C., a dead man falls from the sky, landing at the feet of Nicolaos. It doesnโt normally rain corpses. This one is the politician Ephialtes, who only days before had turned Athens into a democracy, and with it, kick-started western civilization. It looks very much as if Ephialtes was assassinated to stifle the worldโs first democracy at its birth. But Ephialtes has a lieutenant: a rising young politician by the name of Pericles. Pericles commissions the clever young Nicolaos to expose the assassin. Nicolaos walks the mean streets of classical Athens in search of a killer. Heโs totally confident heโll succeed in finding him. There are only a few small problems. Pericles is looking over his shoulder, critiquing his every move. Nicolaos would like to get closer (much closer) to Diotima, the intelligent and annoyingly virgin priestess of Artemis. Heโd prefer not to go near Pythax, the brutally tough chief of the city guard. It would definitely help if the main suspect werenโt Xanthippus, a leading conservative and, worst of all, the father of Pericles. But most of all, what Nicolaos really needs is to shake off his irritating twelve-year-old brother, Socrates, who keeps making helpful suggestions. Can Nicolaos save Athens, democracy, and the future of western civilization?
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