Justice for Athena

By: J. M. Alvey

Narrated by: Gavin Osborn

It’s festival time in Athens, and Philocles is looking forward to the holiday. Visitors are coming from across the Hellenic world for eight days of sporting competitions, musical contests and sacred rites to honour Athena, the city’s patron goddess.

Thousands will flock to the Pnyx to be enthralled by three-day performance of Homer’s Iliad, an entertainment unique to the Great Panathenaia. Taking part is the highest honour and greatest challenge for an epic poet. Then one of the poets is brutally murdered. Is this random misfortune, an old score being settled or someone trying to sabotage the festival? The authorities want this cleared up quickly and quietly. Philocles finds himself on the trail of a killer once more.

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The best of the series so far!

Spending the week of the City Dionysia with Philocles and his friends was entertaining and educational. The mystery was solved with several red herrings making for a chance to tell more about the festival. With team work, intelligence and pluck Philocles is successful again. I hope J.M. Alvey is working on his 4th novel in the series.