House of the Eagle - Ptolemies Quartet 1

Informationen zum Autor Duncan Sprott was born in 1952. He is the author of 1784 ! The Clopton Hercules and Our Lady of the Potatoes . He lives in Ireland. The House of the Eagle by Duncan Sprott is the first in Sprott's 'Ptolemies Quartet', a sequence of historical novels that brings Egypt to life in all its complexity and strangeness. Zusammenfassung The House of the Eagle begins Duncan Sprott's 'Ptolemies Quartet', an epic and ingenious restoration of the dark and glittering story of ancient Alexandria and the Greek Pharaohs of Egypt, whose extraordinary dynasty spans twelve generations from the death of Alexander the Great to the fall of Cleopatra. Narrated by Thoth, the ibis-headed Egyptian god of writing and wisdom, this book details the rise of the shrewd Ptolemy I from ordinary soldier of Macedon to Satrap of Egypt, and his coronation as Pharaoh and a god in his own lifetime. A triumph of historical salvage, The House of the Eagle brings vividly to life the most bizarre family that ever existed.

Product details

• Authors: Duncan Sprott
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2005
• EAN: 9780571219179
• ISBN: 978-0-571-21917-9
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology, Ancient Egypt; Civilisations; Dynasties