Word: rebellion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Agathon, once an adviser to Lykourgos, has now been thrown into prison, officially for complicity in the Helot rebellion but actually because he represents a different, more serious threat to Lykourgos's rule. A leering, over-weight, foul-minded old mystic, constantly eating onions, farting, and peeking in windows to watch elderly couples making love. Agathon scorns the Spartan ideal and gleefully embodies its antithesis. The novel deals with how he got this way and how he views himself, the people he knows, the universe he inhabits. Gardner adroitly uses the device of alternating two manuscripts: Agathon's disjointed writings...
...before he became a seer. He tells us of his marriage to Tuka, the beautiful daughter of an Athenian nobleman at whose home he was tutored, of his involvement with the gross but practical Solon, of his fascination with the Helot Iona, who later becomes a leader of the rebellion. Interesting enough, but all this smacks of soap opera, and at any rate the young Agathon seems pale in comparison to what he becomes...
After Iona's husband is executed for treason, having shielded his wife's involvement in the rebellion, Agathon goes to seed. It is then that he starts compulsively laughing at the universe and having visions of the future...
...disturbances began Monday afternoon and continued into Tuesday night. They were the worst riots in Qui Nhon, South Vietnam's fourth largest city, since the 1966 student rebellion against the Ky regime...
...player, eight of the leading ladies staged their own tournament in Houston. It proved such a success that Virginia Slims cigarettes put up $75,000 to help sponsor a cross-country tour. Since then the "Houston Eight" have more than doubled their ranks-and their fortunes. Responding to the rebellion, the Pacific Coast tournament in October upped the women's purse from $2,000 to $11,000, while last month's Embassy Tournament in Wembley, England, boosted its prize money from...