Over the Wine-Dark Sea
- ISBN-10
- 0765344513
- ISBN-13
- 9780765344519
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 484
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-11-18
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- H. N. Turteltaub
Description
In 310 B.C., Menedemos, a young sea captain, and his scholarly cousin, Sostratos, leave Rhodes to seek their fortune on a darking trading voyage that will take them from Asia Minor to the coasts of Italy and to confrontations with the barbarians of Rome and the powerful Carthaginian fleet. Reprint.
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