Carthaginian Empire – Episode 8: Nemea And Coronea
By: David Bowman
ISBN: 978-1-877546-85-3
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Dedication
History is written by the winners; for if treason succeeds none dare call it treason? I find the concepts this reveals to be fascinating. I can bore the teeth off anyone at twenty paces at parties if you get me going. Hopefully I won’t bore you here. My thanks to the team at Bluewood Publishing for giving me the opportunity to put my theories into practice. My thanks as ever to the people who encouraged me to write as a means of escaping the sometimes dreadful realities of life. I truly hope you enjoy reading these stories as much as I did writing them.
Carthaginian Empire – Episode 8: Nemea And Coronea
Although it was cooler under the awning at the front of his tent, Handro could still feel the baking heat from the sun overhead. Unlike his homeland there was no breeze. The air felt heavy and lifeless and above all hot. He cursed the heat, he cursed this arid land. Above all he cursed his own adventurism that had led him to attack Athens ten years before.
Sure the destruction of the Athenian and Spartan fleets had prevented any rivalry for power in the western end of the True Sea. On the other hand, the casual contempt with which he had raided and desecrated Athens all those years before had led inexorably to this. Before him lay the plains outside of Nemea; on this side were ranged his own troops and the heavily armoured hoplites of Sparta under Lysander. Opposite ranged the Athenian and Corinthian armies. Battle would be joined today.