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"A ripping ancient blockbuster!" Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald
"Why only (and this) Seven fighting against the great ancient city of Thebes? Read all about it in Stephen Dando-Collins's latest mythological extravaganza, squarely based as it is on the complex multiplicity of enthralling ancient written sources.'" PAUL CARTLEDGE, A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture emeritus at the University of Cambridge, UK, and author of Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece.
"With impressive and thorough attention to detail, Stephen Dando-Collins's Seven Against Thebes brings the ancient world into fierce action. He shows the all too human emotions, motives, and clashes of these Bronze Age men, who may - or may not - have lived more than three millennia ago, in a thrilling and astonishingly relatable way. By puzzling through the different variations of the myth, corroborating them with geographies, biographies, poems , artwork, archaeological evidence, histories and more, he manages to expertly stitch together the remains to bring to life the incredibly important foundational ancient myth of Thebes.' ANYA LEONARD, founder and director of Classical Wisdom, and author of Sapho: The Lost Poetess.
"Before 'The Magnificent Seven' rode into film history, there was Aeschylus' 'Seven Against Thebes', the classical template it drew on, even of the film's director didn't acknowledge it. In this dramatisation of the ancient Greek tale, Stephen Dando-Collins starts with Oedipus, his eye-piercing moment of truth when he gives up the throne of Thebes to his two sons, and the aftermath: a hotbed of inter-family infamy that led to the formation of the original Seven, their quest being to overthrow the imposter King of Thebes. It's an epic tale, and Dando-Collins, in his 46th book, recreates it with a thriller-like mix of drama, melodrama and theatrical dialogue. Whether it's true or not, and he's much concerned with this, suggesting that the Sphinx may actually have been a female highway robber, it's a ripping ancient blockbuster." MELBOURNE AGE and SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
"Yet another scorching and enthralling epic from the pen of Stephen Dando-Collins, the modern age's foremost dramatizer of ancient Greek and Roman history. Enough turmoil, blood, and tears for six books!
The real story of how Oedipus came to unknowingly kill his father, sleep with his own mother, and thus beget his own brothers and sisters, contrasts graphically with the commonly held misconception, fostered by Sigmund Freud, that he committed incest semi-consciously. The subsequent unfolding of gigantic events resulting from this freakish accidental union makes absorbing reading, and involves the lives of so many legendary names - Oedipus, Creon, Jocasta, Antigone, and the numerous gods, kings, heroes and beautiful women who throng the pages of Greek mythology.
Stephen Dando-Collins brings his vast knowledge of the many sources of the times - the writings of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca and subsequent scholars and playwrights - to reveal the events leading up to the ill-fated and bloody assault on Thebes in his usual clear and graphic style, while explaining in his scholarly notes how he has extrapolated the most likely true events from the many tangled versions handed down through the ages. This tale of the 'original Magnificent Seven' is a far more complex and tragic narrative than that related in the cinematic age, but still it's a shame that Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen aren't around to play the heroic leads!" ROBIN HAWDON, noted British playwright and author of Almost Famous, The Land, The Land, and Dinner With Churchill.