The philosopher kings / Jo Walton.

First edition.

Summary: "Twenty years have elapsed since the events of The Just City. The City--created in the Iron Age eastern Mediterranean by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, organized on the principles espoused in Plato's Republic, and populated by people from all eras of human history--has now split into five cities. Armed conflict between them is not unheard of. In the original City, the god Apollo, having chosen to live a human life as 'Pytheas, ' is now married and the father of several children. But a tragic loss has caused him to become consumed with the desire for revenge. Being Apollo, he goes about pursuing it in a seemingly rational and systematic way, but his precocious daughter Arete can see that grief has left him unhinged. Along with Arete and several of his sons, plus a boatload of other volunteers--including the now fantastically aged Marsilio Ficino, the great humanist of Renaissance Florence--Pytheas/Apollo goes sailing into the eastern Mediterranean of pre-antiquity in search of the man responsible for his loss. But the unexpected other things that he and his companions will discover ... will change everything."--Front flap of jacket.

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