The Wreckage of Agathon

The Wreckage of Agathon

John Champlin Gardner

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1970

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About the Book

Historical fiction.

Political protest is nothing new.

2500 years ago the philosopher Agathon, a cross between the Marx Brothers and Socrates, was thrown into prison for loudly, rudely and wisely protesting Lykourgos' fanatical policy of law and order in Sparta.

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John Champlin Gardner

John Champlin Gardner, Jr. (1933–1982) was a well-known and controversial American novelist and university professor, best known for his novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth. John Gardner's best known novels include: The Sunlight Dialogues, a novel about a brooding, disenchanted policeman who is asked to…

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