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Overview
Very clean and crisp copy without dust cover.
Description
Ariston, a young heroic Spartan, is cursed and blessed by the Hellenic ideal of
male beauty. The time of the Peloponnesian War is a period of dynamic energy,
of burgeoning culture and festering decadence. Greeks witness Sparta's excessive
cruelty and Athen's male sexuality. This is ancient Greece. On battlefield and
slave market, temple and brothel, are found Socrates’ discourses and Alcibiades’ revels. The brutalizing
code of Sparta competes with the brilliant sophistication of Athens. Caught
between these contradictions, Ariston is enslaved and brought to Athens where
these competing philosophies force the Spartan youth must choose between his
home and his passions.
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