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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 7928079, member: 118780&quot;]I started reading this one recently, since I picked up a coin of Memnon of Rhodes.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1370312[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the coin (yes, I just realized I need to brighten the photo).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1370318[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>To be honest, I&#039;m not a fan of the book so far. The dialog just doesn&#039;t sound natural, nor typical of the times. Every character also sounds the same and there&#039;s a lot of &quot;historical even dropping.&quot; That&#039;s a bit hard to describe, but I would expect that were I dropped somewhere in Asia Minor during the time of Philip II, and I were to walk down the street, I would probably do so uneventfully. I wouldn&#039;t be confronted with every historic event of the period just like today - you can walk down a random street and odds are you won&#039;t witness someone dropping dead of Covid, a shooting, or a political rally.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m tempted to just put it aside, but I&#039;m continuing only because I&#039;m anxious to learn more about this period in time.</p><p><br /></p><p>The best book I&#039;ve read so far about this period is this one.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1370327[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s non-fiction, but gripping. The only odd thing is IMHO it would make a great drinking game - every time he says &quot;Eumenes.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>As an aside, it&#039;s my dream to someday write a series based on this period. I&#039;ve mentioned that as a goal to my wife when we retire in a few years, with the prerequisites that I&#039;d have to first learn Greek, and travel to the areas of most of the scenes (with the possible exception of Babylon depending on the political situation). She&#039;s all for the sites in Greece and Turkey, but a bit apprehensive that I&#039;d insist on seeing Susa as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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