Pankration-novel Patrida Ancient Greece...a time of heroes
The city-states of Greece find themselves on the cusp of a forced unity
as Philip, Alexander's father and the Macedonian king, sets out to create
a single Hellenic nation. Against this background is told the story of
Dioxippus, a fighter in the deadliest bare hand fighting of all time, the
pankration, who will become so famous that his name lives on today.
The novel begins with the teenager, Dioxippus, trying hard to shed the
shackles of slavery. He has been promised freedom in return for fighting
in the pankration and his trainer and mentor, Piros, a freeborn man of
colour, is eager to aid his young charge.
Political events, horrid pasts and family dysfunction all come together to
create a tumultuous and very dangerous Greece. Amidst this chaos rises
Dioxippus. Paralleling this emergence is Alexander, the son of Philip and
soon to be conqueror of the known world.
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