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 * By Steven Pressfield

Chosen by Adam and Allan.

We have chosen to read Gates of Fire: and Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae because we have been wanting to read a book about the spartans. It also says the Epic in the title and all the reviews have been good so we think that it should be a very good book.

One of the reviews said that this book keeps true to what really happened to the Spartans at "the Hot Gates" during the battle in 480 B.C. We have not found a bad review about it and from what we have seen in the little excerpts from the book, it seems like a good read. Please let us read this.

Week 1

Characters 1. His Majesty- Xerxes, king of Persia, defeated the Spartans in the Battle of Thermopylae after a long 7 day battle.

2. Alexandros- One of the servants to Xerxes

Questions 1. name 3 of the places that Xerxes owned.

2. how many days did the battle of thermopylae take?

Week 2

The story goes into a lot of detail on each of the main characters of the story. You almost feel like you have known the characters since birth. It also describes what is going through the characters' minds.

1. Who gained the nickname "Rooster?" 2. Name some of the questions Alexandros had to answer. 3.Where did Dienekes say to go to?

Week 3

The story has a war-ish tone. this book gets in-depth with each of the characters they portray. Xerxies army is very confident that they will win when the war is over.

1. How does Xeries army feel about the war? 2. How do the Spartans feel about the war? 3. How does Leonidas feel about the war?

Week 4

The book has some maps at the beginning that show the battle areas

1. In the spring, what was called to leonidas' camp 2. 3.

Week 5

We thought that this book was good, but it could have been better. I think that if we had read this before we had seen 300 we probably would have liked it a whole lot more because the story was more focused on the facts, while the movie was focused on the fighting and some cool blue screen effects.

1. Who would you recommend this book to? 2. Did you find the story interesting, or kind of boring? 3.**