How to live a good life, and why? A young boy puts these questions to philosophers in ancient Athens and then travels to Jerusalem to join a community of new believers. Peregrinus Proteus quits the growing religion to travel to Alexandria and Rome but his restless quest never ends - until his dramatic death at the Olympic Games in the year 167AD. Did he find the truth about the meaning of life? Saintly and scholarly in equal measure, this spiritual adventure offers a humorous introduction to the birth of a new faith that would fundamentally change the Mediterranean world.
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