For the 2005 heavy metal recording, see Gates of Fire (album).
1998 historical novel by Steven Pressfield
Gates of Fire
First edition
Author
Steven Pressfield
Country
Australia
Language
English
Genre
Historical fiction
Publisher
Doubleday
Publication date
October 20, 1998
Media type
Print (hardback)
Pages
400
ISBN
978-0-385-49251-5
OCLC
38916930
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 21
LC Class
PS3566.R3944 G38 1998
Gates of Fire is a 1998 historical fiction novel by Steven Pressfield that recounts the Battle of Thermopylae through Xeones, a perioikos[1] (free but non-citizen inhabitant of Sparta) born in Astakos,[2] and one of only three Greek survivors of the battle.
Gates of Fire was on the Commandant of the Marine Corps' Reading list. It is taught at West Point, the United States Naval Academy, and at the Marine Corps The Basic School.
The novel stresses the literary themes of fate and irony as well as the military themes of honor, duty, stoicism, and esprit de corps.
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^"Gates of Fire". New York Times. 1998. Retrieved 18 August 2016. I was recognized at least ironically as a freeborn and, evincing such qualities of a wild beast as the Lakedaemonians found admirable, was elevated to the status of parastates pais, a sort of sparring partner for the youths enrolled in the agoge, the notorious and pitiless thirteen-year training regimen which turned boys into Spartan warriors.
^"Gates of Fire". New York Times. 1998. Retrieved 18 August 2016. My childhood home, before fate set me upon the road which found its end at the Hot Gates, was originally in Astakos in Akarnania, north of the Peloponnese, where the mountains look west over the sea toward Kephallinia and, beyond the horizon, to Sikelia and Italia.
^Kelly, John D.; Jauregui, Beatrice; Mitchell, Sean T.; Jeremy Walton (2010). Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. p. 351. ISBN 978-0-226-42995-3.
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