2022년 3월 18일 금요일

Stephen Presfield's "The Door to Fire"

 First of all, the author, Steven Pressfield, is an expert on ancient Greece.I understand that you wrote an alternative history set in that era in a collection of alternative history called "If" that came out before.And I remember seeing it in a documentary about Sparta on Discovery that Xerxes used to attack Greece with large expeditionary forces to pay for the defeat of the second war between ancient Greece and Persia, the Battle of Marathon. More precisely, it's about Leonidas and his men who fought to the end in a place called Demorpile. As you are well aware, the Persian invasion of Greece ended with the victory of the Greeks in the Battle of Salamis and the Plataean Plains the following year. But the author argues that it would have been difficult if it had not been for the battle at Demorpile.And this book is about the terrible battle that took place in Demorpile. This book begins when a servant called Xeo, not Leonidas or Spartan warriors, who were the main characters, survived the battlefield and became a Persian prisoner.  Through his recollection of the only (of course fiction) surviving, his personal history and why he came to Demorpile, and why he had to fight to the end, and one of the Persian emperor's scribes recorded his story. This first-person retrospective method is used as it is in the article about General Gyebaek written in Sohae Deco now. Personally, I prefer this type of first-person perspective and recollection type novels to the general novel type omniscient writer's perspective or progressive type of novel.This is because Sohae's idea is that novels should only show half of them, and omniscient writers often show more than half of them. The battle scene is also out of the ordinary...Some parts are intense and some parts are cold enough to make your hair stand on end. The most difficult and dangerous thing about looking at the past is to look at the time from the present point of view or point of view. So I have often seen dangerous situations in which people criticize or judge what happened at that time based on the current standards. The battle of Demorphile and the Greek-Persian wars in this book are drawing attention because from a Western point of view, Greece, which was carrying out democratic politics, won the despotic Persian...That's probably because they overcame the huge power gap and won.The cause of Greece's victory in Victor David Henson's slaughter and civilization is also being found in democratic politics. I can't judge whether it's right or wrong now by Sohae's power, but it's true that Greece won somehow, and I think the cause should also be found within Greece. Another reason why Demorpile is famous is that it best reveals the Spartans who are not afraid of death. I think you've heard of Spartan warriors who answered, "Then we can fight in the shade," and Leonidas, who replied, "Come and take it," to the Persian envoy who said, "Put down your weapons and surrender." Of course, the most famous is the tombstone engraved with the words of the poet Simonides..."Go to Sparta and tell him, my dear fellow travelers said. Here, under the command of my country, we lie down like this." This is also the last sentence of the book. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Has Anabasis, which deals with the Black Sea expedition of Greek mercenaries, ever been translated and published in Korea? I want to find it, but I can't find it.If you know, please let me know.For your information, the biography of Gaul, the history of the Peloponnesian War, and the books of Herodotus and Takitus were published in a place called Pan-Usa.

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