The Mapmaker: A Novel of Ancient Greece - 9798987080610

Timalcus, the young narrator of this darkly comic, sometimes savage novel, follows his beloved into the fog of the Peloponnesian War. Along the way, he meets Sokrates and Plato, spends a season with murderous Scythian bandits, survives a plague, witnesses the invention of Scrabble(R), and attends a Messiah convention.