I imagine many people here have already read it, but I just finished reading Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield and for anyone who is interested in historic fiction I would highly recommend it.

Amazon.com: Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae: Books: Steven Pressfield

I think I read it. Wasn't one of the most important characters
a helot who became a naturalized citizen, after fighting the
system so far as to name his son "Messenion"?

Go tell Sparta, traveller passing by,
That here, obedient to her laws we lie.

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From the fury of the Northmen, Good Lord deliver us.

Yeah. Thats the book, but he changes his son's name to a spartan one in the end.

What an amazing book, I loved it.

I have not read it yet.
I think its not available in our book stores. And my badness, I cant shop at amazon.

Yes, a wonderful book. It's assigned to our local high school in a Global Perspectives class. Get it from the library. I had to.

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Pirates ftw! http://www.politicsforumpoliticalwor...uestion-2.html