Dust-jacket illustration for The Arrows of Hercules
Author
L. Sprague de Camp
Cover artist
Charles McCurry
Language
English
Genre
Historical novel
Publisher
Doubleday
Publication date
1965
Publication place
United States
Media type
Print (hardback)
Pages
297
Preceded by
The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate
Followed by
An Elephant for Aristotle
The Arrows of Hercules is an historical novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardback by Doubleday in 1965[1][2][3] and in paperback by Curtis Books in 1970.[1][2] The book was reissued with a new introduction by Harry Turtledove as a trade paperback and ebook by Phoenix Pick in April 2014.[2][4] It is the fourth of de Camp's historical novels in order of writing, and second chronologically, set in the time of Dionysios I of Syracuse at the end of the 5th and beginning of the 4th centuries BC.
^ abLaughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. p. 27.
^ abcThe Arrows of Hercules title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
^Library of Congress (1965). "LCCN 65-10595". The Arrows of Hercules.
^Amazon.com record for the Phoenix Pick edition
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