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The Philosopher Kings: A Novel (Thessaly, 2),Used
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From acclaimed, awardwinning author Jo Walton: Philosopher Kings, a tale of gods and humans, and the surprising things they have to learn from one another. Twenty years have elapsed since the events of The Just City. The City, founded by the timetraveling goddess Pallas Athene, organized on the principles espoused in Plato's Republic and populated by people from all eras of human history, has now split into five cities, and lowlevel armed conflict between them is not unheardof.The god Apollo, living (by his own choice) a human life as "Pythias" in the City, his true identity known only to a few, is now married and the father of several children. But a tragic loss causes him to become consumed with the desire for revenge. Being Apollo, he goes handling it in a seemingly rational and systematic way, but it's evident, particularly to his precocious daughter Arete, that he is unhinged with grief.Along with Arete and several of his sons, plus a boatload of other volunteersincluding the now fantastically aged Marsilio Ficino, the great humanist of Renaissance FlorencePythias/Apollo goes sailing into the mysterious Eastern Mediterranean of preantiquity to see what they can findpossibly the man who may have caused his great grief, possibly communities of the earliest people to call themselves "Greek." What Apollo, his daughter, and the rest of the expedition will discoverwill change everything.
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