He went to Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary in Ruislip, Middlesex, then attended St Martins School in Northwood, before moving on to Merchant Taylors' School.

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I'm not sure whether it was the inability to give a rat's ass about Pericles or a disjointed plotline. This book follows, Pericles, who is also referred to “The First Citizen of Athens”, from a young man for the period of about a decade. Its heroes are the young Athenian general Cimon and Xanthippus’ son Pericles, beginning to make his way in public life. A reviewer forPublishers Weeklyrecognized that “Iggulden has a solid grounding in Roman military history,” but found that “anachronisms in speech and attitude roll underfoot and trip up authenticity. His childhood was shaped by a series of brutal acts including the betrayal of his father by a neighboring tribe.

Cimon is the Strategos of the Greek Alliance, which is shown being formed in this part under the leadership of Xanthippus. The 3 stars are for the beginning and the end , the 2 stars deducted are for the middle section of the book .

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There were other stories of Pausanias’s downfall: that he was too close to Xerxes but Iggulden ignores that one and prefers the loss of prisoners, which Thucydides has suggested. In 2010, there was media coverage toward a proposed epic film Emperor: Young Caesar to be about the early life of Julius Caesar covering the years from 92 BC to 71 BC and based on the first two novels of Iggulden's Emperor series, The Gates of Rome and The Death of Kings. It is a well written, generally exciting adventure story, achieved without major insult to the historical record.

He is married to Ella, who is from theAmalfi Coastin Southern Italy and whose family are renowned craftpastaandraviolispecialist producers in the region.

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His generation followed in the footsteps of those who fought at Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis and sought to emulate their heroes. Dan Carlin discusses this issue in his podcast series King of Kings – because the Greeks are the ones who wrote things down, it is from their perspective that we learn almost everything we know about this time period and the interactions between Greece and Persia. citation needed] The second book in the series, Shiang, was released on 2018 followed by The Sword Saint in 2019. This book is more like an introduction to the real thing, which will be the next book, on the life of Pericles.The first book in his new Athenian series, The Gates of Athens, was a Sunday Times top five bestseller. My mother is Irish and from an early age she told me history as an exciting series of stories – with dates. It is precisely that lack that makes me think it would be more interesting to read from the Persian perspective, who had an empire so vast that their dealings with the Greeks likely amounted to, for them, little more than a sideshow.