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Frank Yerby is a noted early historical fiction writer, whose noted works are "The Foxes of Harrow","The Vixens' and 'The Golden Hawk'. In this book, Ariston, son of a rich man, taken from his home at the age of seven, forced into daily man-killing exercises, restricted to a single garment in all seasons, kept forever in a state of semi-starvation and ordered to death duels to prove that he was a Spartan. He rose from boyhood in the perfumed brothels of Greece to an incredible destiny on the mighty battlefields of the ancient world.
