Glorious Exploits'One of the most original and brilliant debuts in years' Irish Times An exhilarating and fiercely original story of brotherhood, war, and art, set in ancient Sicily. Ancient Sicily. Enter GELON visionary, dreamer, theatre lover. Enter LAMPO lovesick, jobless, in need of a distraction. Imprisoned in the quarries of Syracuse, thousands of defeated Athenians hang on by the thinnest of threads. They're fading in the baking heat, but not everything is lost