Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon

On theme of novels influenced by Ancient Greek Myhology, this month we will be discussing Ferdia Lennon's Glorious Exploits.

Ancient Sicily. Enter GELON: visionary, dreamer, theatre lover. Enter LAMPO: lovesick, jobless, in need of a distraction.
Imprisoned in the quarries of Syracuse, thousands of defeated Athenians hang on by the thinnest of threads.

They’re fading in the baking heat, but not everything is lost: they can still recite lines from Greek tragedy when tempted by Lampo and Gelon with goatskins of wine and scraps of food.
And so an idea is born. Because, after all, you can hate the invaders but still love their poetry.

It’s audacious. It might even be dangerous. But like all the best things in life – love, friendship, art itself – it will reveal the very worst, and the very best, of what humans are capable of.

Each month we have a theme to select a book for future book clubs. At September’s meeting we will be choosing a book for November which will be on the theme of betrayal so please bring your suggestions along so the group can vote
on them.