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• Ferdia Lennon shares the Plutarch passage that inspired Glorious Exploits - Penguin Books Australia

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  Plus, find out why he taught himself to memorise an entire deck of cards while researching for the novel.

• Perseus Digital Library: Plutarch's "Life of Nicias," paragraph 29.

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  This translation made available by the Perseus Digital Library provides the passage from Greek philosopher and biographer Plutarch's "Life of Nicias," through which Ferdia Lennon was inspired to develop "Glorious Exploits."

• Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon review – classical tragedy as a Celtic caper | Fiction | The Guardian

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  "This clever debut uses a modern Irish vernacular for the tale of mismatched buddies staging Medea with Athenian prisoners in ancient Syracuse."

• "This trip to ancient Sicily is heartbreaking — and fun" - review in the Washington Post

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  "In Ferdia Lennon’s ‘Glorious Exploits,’ prisoners during the Peloponnesian War are enlisted to put on a performance of the tragedy Medea."

• "A Comic Riff on Greek Tragedy, With an Irish Accent" review in the New York Times

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  "In Ferdia Lennon’s charming debut, “Glorious Exploits,” Athenian prisoners stage Euripides for their wine-swilling, foul-mouthed captors."

• Ferdia Lennon wins Waterstones debut fiction prize for “riotous” novel "Glorious Exploits"

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  This article describes the novel and details the ceremony and the award associated with the Waterstones prize.

• Glorious Exploits

  a Novel

  Lennon, Ferdia,

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• Glorious Exploits

  a Novel

  Lennon, Ferdia,

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• Glorious Exploits

  a Novel

  Lennon, Ferdia,

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• The Song of Achilles

  Miller, Madeline,

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• Circe

  a Novel

  Miller, Madeline,

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• Chimera

  Barth, John, 1930-

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• The Mask of Apollo

  Renault, Mary,

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• I, Claudius

  From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54

  Graves, Robert, 1895-1985,

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• Claudius

  the God and His Wife Messalina

  Graves, Robert, 1895-1985,

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• Augustus

  Williams, John, 1922-1994,

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• Memoirs of Hadrian

  And, Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian

  Yourcenar, Marguerite,

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• Ireland's Immortals

  a History of the Gods of Irish Myth

  Williams, M. A. (Mark Andrew), 1980-

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• Greek Mythology

  a Traveler's Guide From Mount Olympus to Troy

  Stuttard, David,

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• Looking at Medea

  Essays and a Translation of Euripides' Tragedy

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