6/28/2023 0 Comments Dienekes gates of fire![]() ![]() ![]() Action Survivor: Xeones and his cousin Diomache become this after their city is destroyed, forcing them to live in the mountains as hunters.A Father to His Men: Dienekes is this among the Spartans in general, specially Alexandros and Xeones.The book is recommended reading for American cadets at the US Military and Naval Academies, as well as as the US Marine officer school. A Persian historian co-narrates the events happening in the "present" (after Thermopylae) and gives insight on how the Spartan stand at Thermopylae is effecting the Persian invasion of Greece. ![]() The story is told as a series of flashbacks from the perspective of a Spartan helot named Xeones, the sole Spartan survivor, as he tells his story to King Xerxes of Persia. Gates of Fire is a historical fiction novel by Steven Pressfield, published in 1998, revolving around the Battle of Thermopylae during the Greco-Persian Wars. "I will tell His Majesty what a king is." ![]()
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