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Book review: An accomplished debut riffs on class and the Classics
Ancient Greeks with Dublin accents take centre stage in clever historical novel
Athenian domination of the Delian League, an alliance formed to defend against any potential threat to the Ionian Greeks, led to the Peloponnesian War between the city states of Athens and Sparta and their allies from 431 to 404 BC.
Athens took an awful hammering during what became known as the Sicilian Expedition and after their final defeat at Syracuse, thousands of Athenians were imprisoned and left to starve in the stone quarries near the ...
