| 词条 | The Arrows of Hercules |
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| name = The Arrows of Hercules | title_orig = | translator = | image = Arrows of hercules.jpg | caption = Dust-jacket illustration for The Arrows of Hercules | author = L. Sprague de Camp | illustrator = | cover_artist = Charles McCurry | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = Historical novel | publisher = Doubleday | release_date = 1965 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (Hardback) | pages = 297 | preceded_by = The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate | followed_by = An Elephant for Aristotle }} The Arrows of Hercules is an historical novel by American writef L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardback by Doubleday in 1965[1] and in paperback by Curtis Books in 1970.[2] The book was reissued with a new introduction by Harry Turtledove as a trade paperback and ebook by Phoenix Pick in April 2014.[3] It is the fourth of de Camp's historical novels in order of writing, and second chronologically, set in the time of Dionysios I of Syracuse at the end of the 5th and beginning of the 4th centuries BC. Plot summaryThe protagonist is the engineer Zopyros of Tarentum, a follower of the Pythagorean philosophical school. Having invented an improved type of catapult, he is drafted into Syracuse's war effort against Carthage by the tyrant Dionysios, creator of the first military ordnance department known to history. The historical Battle of Motya of 399 BC is a major event in the novel. Also portrayed is the incident upon which the legend of the Sword of Damocles is supposedly based. ReceptionContemporary reviews of the novel were favorable. Shildes Johnson in Library Journal "highly recommended" the book, calling it "[a]n intriguing novel" and a "fascinating historical romance which is a worthwhile addition to any library." The author "makes his characters live, and the reader can almost imagine the social, economic, and religious milieu of this period in Grecian history."[4] Jackie Pettycrew in The Arizona Republic deemed it a "rousing piece of fiction" with an "abundance" of action whose "pace is rapid and unrelenting." She rated it an "[a]ltogether, highly entertaining, lightly informative" book bringing ancient history "vividly to life."[5] Booklist noted its "[a]uthentic background and synthetic [sic: sympathetic] characters mingle easily in a story where action, color, page, and plot have the virile appeal evident in the author's The dragon of [the] Ishtar Gate.[6]Edith Farr Ridington in Classical World called it "an adventurous, breezy tale" with "exciting and quite believable adventures" written "in a colloquial style that helps to make ancient times come alive" and which "uses to good advantage the author's special interest in ancient engineering." She notes that "[t]he book is spiced here and there with some frank sexualities; otherwise its appeal would seem to be especially to young people interested in a story combining mechanical devices with adventure."[7] Notes1. ^{{cite news|journal=The arrows of Hercules|year=1965|title=LCCN 65-10595|author=Library of Congress|url=http://lccn.loc.gov/65010595}} {{s-start}}{{succession box | before=The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate| title=Historical novels of L. Sprague de Camp | after=An Elephant for Aristotle | years =The Arrows of Hercules}}{{s-end}}{{L. Sprague de Camp}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Arrows of Hercules, The}}2. ^{{cite book | last=Laughlin | first=Charlotte | author2=Daniel J. H. Levack | title=De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography | location=San Francisco | publisher=Underwood/Miller | year=1983 | page=27}} 3. ^[https://www.amazon.com/The-Arrows-Hercules-Sprague-Camp/dp/1612421903/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=13NV7HTMTE6TDRRA7C1F Amazon.com record for the Phoenix Pick edition] 4. ^Johnson, Shildes. "New Books Appraised. Fiction. De Camp, L. Sprague. The Arrows of Hercules." In Library Journal, v. 90, no. 2, January 15, 1965, p. 268. 5. ^Pettycrew, Jackie. "Highly Entertaining Tale." In The Arizona Republic, Feb. 21, 1965, p. C-29. 6. ^"Fiction. De Camp, Lyon Sprague. The arrows of Hercules." In The Booklist, v. 61, no. 13, Mar. 1, 1965, p. 649. 7. ^Ridington, Edith Farr. "Some Recent Historical Fiction and Juveniles, XI." In Classical World, v. 59, no. 3, Nov. 1965, pp. 75-76. 5 : 1965 American novels|Historical novels|Novels by L. Sprague de Camp|Novels set in ancient Greece|Doubleday (publisher) books |
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