Epigoni: Further Reading
Epigoni, ἐπίγονοι, “those born after.”
Below are books born after the Acenes Codex for further reading of the principles and history found there.
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- Best Stoicism Books: Where to StartThe Stoic reading list, from the three ancient sources to the modern scholarship, with an honest note on which to read first.
- Dragon Books Without RomanceFantasy novels where the dragon is a monster rather than a love interest, for readers who want the older kind of dragon story.
- Fantasy Books Where the Dragon Is the VillainNovels in which the dragon is the antagonist: hostile, intelligent, and not available for riding.
- Books Like Gates of FireWhat to read after Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire: Spartan and ancient-world novels with the same weight.
- Greek Mythology Dragon BooksWhere the dragons are in Greek myth, and the novels that use them.
- Best Dragon Slayer BooksNovels about killing a dragon rather than befriending one.
- Best Spartan NovelsFiction set in ancient Sparta, from the agoge to Thermopylae.
- Fantasy Books About Dragon HoardsWhy dragons sit on gold, and the novels that take the question seriously.
- Influenced by the Acenes CodexA translator's note on the later texts that share the Codex's material: the hoard, the sleepless guardian, the wager.
Acenes of Sparta: The Dragon Slayer
A dragon is the reason the 300 died. Leonidas used the magic of the gods to bind Kalaxes beneath Taygetus, and the price was his life and his men's. Sixty-two years later a seven-year-old of the agoge falls into the dragon's crypt and inherits the unpaid balance.
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