Description: The incomparable Gore Vidal interprets and animates history--this time in a panoramic tour of the 5th century B.C.--and embellishes it with his own ironic humor, brilliant insights and piercing observations. Includes a new Preface by the author.
Review Quotes: "An incredibly detailed and convincing picture of the ancient world." -Anthony Burgess
"Brilliantly realized. . . . Fertile, vivid, and ingenious. . . . [A] surging river of a book." -Mary Renault, The New York Review of Books "His best novel. . . . There isn't a page of Creation that doesn't inform and very few pages that do not delight" -The New York Times "Highly literate, stylish, entertaining and provocative." -The Wall Street Journal