Artamenes (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, European Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Madeleine de Scudéry
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Sentimental romance
- Time of Work: 500
- Setting: Asia Minor
- Principal Characters: Artamene, Cyaxares, Mandane, Philidaspes, The King of Pontus, Anaxoris, Prince Mazare of Sacia, Thomyris, Spargapises, Araminta, Spithridates, Panthea, Martesie, Metrobate
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Roman à clef
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Asia or Asians, Kings, queens, or royalty, Greek or Roman times, Battles, Oracles, Iran or Iranian people
- Locales: Asia Minor
The Story:
Cyrus, son of the King of Persia, had been given away as a child to a shepherd, who was ordered to kill the infant because his grandfather had been told by an omen that his grandson would eventually kill him. Instead, the shepherd had reared the boy to manhood. Now, under the name of Artamene, he was the best general of Cyaxares, King of Cappadocia. He was also secretly in love with Mandane, Cyaxares’ daughter.
The kings of Cappadocia and of Pontus had decided to settle a dispute between themselves by a combat, using two hundred men on each side. Artamene...
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