Owls to Athens

Owls to Athens is the fourth book in the Hellenic Traders series by H.N. Turteltaub (a pseudonym of Harry Turtledove). Like the others in the series it is a work of historical fiction concerning the adventures of a pair of Greek traders from Rhodes.

Owls to Athens
AuthorHarry Turtledove
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesHellenic Traders
GenreHistorical novel
PublisherForge Books (Tor)
Publication date
2004
Media typePrint
Pages382
ISBN0-7653-0038-9
OCLC55625156
813/.54 22
LC ClassPS3570.U758 O95 2004
Preceded byThe Sacred Land 

Title

"Taking owls to Athens" was a contemporary Greek saying, roughly the equivalent of the modern "selling snow to eskimos" or "carrying coals to Newcastle". The saying referred to the owl depicted on Athenian silver drachmas, Attica being home to large silver mines.

Plot

Sostratos and Menedemos arrive in Athens in time for the Dionysia. Sostratos spends much of his time visiting with his old teachers. His cousin, Menedemos finds himself having a sexual encounter with an important Athenian woman.

Setting

The setting is Athens in 307 BC, sixteen years after the death of Alexander the Great.[1] As in the other books in the series, persons and places are frequently given their original Greek names (Sokrates, Platon, etc.) rather than the Latin-derived ones common in English.

gollark: Can this be weaponized?
gollark: Hmm, I just watched a video and I now dislike tumbleweed.
gollark: It's just `/kill`.
gollark: Not a real comamnd.
gollark: Fascinating.

References
  1. Owls to Athens, pg. 381, hardcover, Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.


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