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Discuss the July 2021 Completist Poll Winner here

I'm so glad this won because I own it and now I have the motivation to read it! I hope to start in a week or two.

Interesting so far - lots of historical narrative so I think that might need to be something you are okay with to enjoy this book.

I've been traveling and offline the past couple of weeks. A great many things to catch up on now!! Diving in!

Click below for my review - a lot of history to sift through so it may be too much for some, but I ended up enjoying it!

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I listened to the BBC dramatization of this. I’m not sure how true to the book it was, because I didn’t feel that it was repetitive like Matthew suggested. However it was a very good rendition. And I’m glad I listened to it.

I agree it was a fascinating historical period. Some of the research I’ve done suggests that it was a pretty accurate historical fiction.

I enjoyed this quite a bit even though I thought it could use some editing. I thought about switching to a dramatization about half way in but then decided to push on.

I didn't know anything of this history so I wouldn't have noticed if there were historical inaccuracies. I'm not one to get worked up over historical inaccuracies anyway because they can sometimes make for a better novel. Historical fiction is great in that it often wants to make you look up more about the history as Liane did here.

Hmm...I may have to check out the BBC dramatization of it, especially because I'm a huge fan of Derek Jacobi. I listened to the audiobook and my feeling was more like Matthew's I think.

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It was definitely an interesting historical period and it reminds me of some things I learned with my students, lol! I'm a math and science tutor, but sometimes I worked with my students on other things like social studies!

Eileen, I listened to the BBC dramatization while hiking, so now every time I take a hike my mind drifts to Claudius. It’s rather weird that it stuck with me that strongly.

Liane wrote: "Eileen, I listened to the BBC dramatization while hiking, so now every time I take a hike my mind drifts to Claudius. It’s rather weird that it stuck with me that strongly."

Ha! I hope that is not a bad thing!

Interesting! I will add that to my queue for listening. As I said, I loved Derek Jakobi in the series, although I don't remember much now. But when I started reading this book, I kept seeing Jakobi in my mind, so it will be interesting to listen to the adaptation.

Matthew, no, it’s not a bad thing, just weird to be contemplating ancient Greek politics in modern day woods. Better than dwelling on current day politics!!😆 and it feels circular, like these woods have probably been around since before that age and have lived through it all. This too shall pass.