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Cloud Cuckoo Land (Paperback)
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Cloud Cuckoo Land (Paperback)
Series: The Naomi Mitchison Library, 21
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Ancient Greek history and politics fascinated Naomi Mitchison, and
in particular the long antagonism or rivalry of Athens and Sparta.
In this, her second novel, she investigates the two city states
through Alxenor, a young man from the tiny island of Poieessa,
which changes hands as the balance of power changes. He does not
choose his loyalty in a theoretical way, but as he experiences
rough treatment from both. By Alxenor's day, Athens had declined
from the golden age of Perikles, and the city was prone to bully
smaller entities, but he is forced to recognise the much worse
reality of Spartan civilisation, with iron discipline, cruelty and
loss of individuality. Eventually, Mitchison came to see even the
twentieth century in terms of struggles between Athens and Sparta,
democracy and totalitarianism. Isobel Murray is Emeritus Professor
of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of Aberdeen.
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