Stephen Marte
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- Marte, Stephen Bradford
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- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Pennsylvania State University (BA ∙ English)
Arcadia University (MA|Education) - Berufe
- journalist (newspaper)
teacher (high school English)
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- Stephen is a senior copywriter working for an international corporation in their creative department. Over the past several years he has won seven awards from various marketing associations for his advertising copy, including 'Best in Show' at the 2011 IMCA Showcase awards in Toronto for a series of magazine ads. Stephen has worked as a newpaper reporter and a high school English teacher. His first historical novel 'The Wandering King' was published March 29, 2013. He currently lives in Bucks County, PA, with his son Zachary.
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"I am called Euryanax and I am a Spartan. In the Dorian tongue, "eury" meant wandering and "anax" meant king... From my name comes my story..
As an old man, he tells his story to his granddaughter, Alala. This promises to be a great series: the story of Euryanax, wandering king, Prince and nephew of THE Leonidas. When his grandfather, Anaxandridas, one of the two Spartan kings, dies, his father Doreius is passed over as the successor, so Doreius leads a group of Spartans to found a colony in Libya. We see how they try to set up their colony in a beautiful spot, but are betrayed by the king who had invited them there and defeated by Persians and Medes, who occupy the nearby area. Euryanax loses a dear friend, Battus, a boy from a local tribe, and finds a Persian Princess with whom he falls in love. The Spartans venture to Delphi after picking up a ship at Corinth. A priest just happens to appear and to present them with a destination: Eryx in Sicily. Are he and his message genuine? Or is he a charlatan?
The prophecy they are given by the Pythia is ambiguous:
Hear your fate, Spartans of the wide spaces,
Before you are two roads, different from other places:
One leading to an honorable city of freedom,
The other to the realm of Hades, which mortals shun.
You may travel to one through honor and bravery;
The other through greed sand destruction most cowardly;
Whichever path thou wilt take, hear me clearly,
Thou shalt conquer all before thee.
The pacing was very good; I enjoyed the fight scenes--on both land and sea--and the athletic contests at Delphi. There were a few anachronisms, e.g., potatoes, but nothing spoiled the novel. I plan on continuing the story. Recommended.… (mehr)
As an old man, he tells his story to his granddaughter, Alala. This promises to be a great series: the story of Euryanax, wandering king, Prince and nephew of THE Leonidas. When his grandfather, Anaxandridas, one of the two Spartan kings, dies, his father Doreius is passed over as the successor, so Doreius leads a group of Spartans to found a colony in Libya. We see how they try to set up their colony in a beautiful spot, but are betrayed by the king who had invited them there and defeated by Persians and Medes, who occupy the nearby area. Euryanax loses a dear friend, Battus, a boy from a local tribe, and finds a Persian Princess with whom he falls in love. The Spartans venture to Delphi after picking up a ship at Corinth. A priest just happens to appear and to present them with a destination: Eryx in Sicily. Are he and his message genuine? Or is he a charlatan?
The prophecy they are given by the Pythia is ambiguous:
Hear your fate, Spartans of the wide spaces,
Before you are two roads, different from other places:
One leading to an honorable city of freedom,
The other to the realm of Hades, which mortals shun.
You may travel to one through honor and bravery;
The other through greed sand destruction most cowardly;
Whichever path thou wilt take, hear me clearly,
Thou shalt conquer all before thee.
The pacing was very good; I enjoyed the fight scenes--on both land and sea--and the athletic contests at Delphi. There were a few anachronisms, e.g., potatoes, but nothing spoiled the novel. I plan on continuing the story. Recommended.… (mehr)
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Euryanax was sympathetic as well as many of those surrounding him. His nemesis, the Persian nobleman, Achaemenes, had absolute NO redeeming qualities. One thing that annoyed me: since the author used Greek terms, to carry it through completely--for ancient Greeks a "short sword" would have been called a xiphos and what he calls a spatha would have been a kopis. A couple of anachronisms: potatoes and tomatoes. "Senators" for the elders of the Gerousia?
Highly recommended.… (mehr)