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Title: You'll read this more than once.
Review: This is a masterly evocation of the ancient world -- with interesting characters who are sympathetic and understandable, but _not_ like modern people stuffed into chitons.The scholarship is solid but not obtrusive, the action is exciting, and the settings are well-drawn.I'm particularly impressed by the way the language -- while natural, smoothly written English -- _feels_ like ancient Greek.When you've read this book, you'll want to read it again for the bits you missed; and you'll know down in your bones that it's a long, dangerous way from Rhodes to Italy.
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