Life After Death at Ipsambul

By Lin Sten

After the decades-long assault by despotic gigantic Persia on the allied Greek states, the Greeks were finally victorious. Now, in the ancient Mediterranean world of "Life After Death at Ipsambul," war is imminent among the Greeks. Arion, the only child of a wealthy mercantile family on idyllic Lesbos, had the education and security to evolve into a poetic soul. Now, as a boy growing into a man, he is thrust into a violent world while his unscrupulous uncle is running the family estate. To survive, he must adjust and overcome the injustice and cruelty of it. This is the story of Arion's experiences while traveling to Sidon from Damaskos as a child with his father, departing from Mytilene on Lesbos to sail south on the Aegean Sea as a juvenile, traveling up the Nile to Ipsambul, then returning to Greece as a young adult, and at last on the verge of arriving in glorious Athens (during the Age of Perikles) two years before the beginning of the Peloponnesian War. On his journey, he finds that the surprising puzzle of life allows romance and religion only in portions of reality, hope, and fantasy. The novel spans twelve years, ending in 433 BC. If you would like to experience life in the ancient Mediterranean world, then you will probably enjoy this adult story about coming-of-age there. This novel is as finely detailed as Melville's "Moby-Dick," but less than half as long. "Arion's Odyssey" is a tetralogy, which is composed of "Life After Death at Ipsambul," "Aegean Fire," "Beyond the Battle of Naupaktos," and "Return to Lesbos." All of these novels have been written; professional editing is complete only on the first. Set in the ancient Mediterranean world, "Arion's Odyssey" (the tetralogy) is an adult coming-of-age story about Arion, a sensitive Greek male (boy becoming a man) from a wealthy mercantile family on the Greek island of Lesbos. It begins fourteen years prior to the inception of the Peloponnesian War, and ends during that war: the tetralogy spans the period from 445 BC to 427 BC.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1511801549
• ISBN13: 9781511801546
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"