The Wreckage of Agathon
Historical fiction.
Political protest is nothing new.
2500 years ago the philosopher Agathon, a cross between the Marx Brothers and Socrates, was thrown into prison for loudly, rudely and wisely protesting Lykourgos' fanatical policy of law and order in Sparta.
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John Champlin Gardner
John Champlin Gardner, Jr. (1933–1982) was a well-known and controversial American novelist and university professor, best known for his novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth.
John Gardner's best known novels include: The Sunlight Dialogues, a novel about a brooding, disenchanted policeman who is asked to engage a madman fluent in classical mythology; Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf legend from the monster's point of view; and October Light, a novel about an aging and embittered brother and sister living and feuding together in rural Vermont. This last novel won the National Book Critics' Circle Award in 1976. Each book features brutish, isolated figures struggling for integrity and understanding in an unforgiving society.
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