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This 5 page paper discusses Gore Vidal’s novel “Creation,” a historical fiction about the 5th century B.C. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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work that ranges throughout the world of the 5th century B.C., which may have been the greatest and most interesting period in world history: "The Buddha was alive, and so
were Confucius, Herodotus, Thucydides, Pericles, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Protagoras, Anaxagoras, Socrates and Aristotle" (Theroux). Among those who had only recently died were the great Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu and the religious leader
Zoroaster, both of whom had left their students behind to carry on their work (Theroux). In India, the caste system has just been created; Darius I was king of Persia
and would be succeeded by Xerxes who won the title "King of Kings" (Theroux, 1981). The century seems crammed with some of the most monumental and important events in human
history, and Vidal has plopped his protagonist down right in the middle of it. The book is narrated by Cyrus Spitama, the Persian ambassador to Athens, and one of Xerxes
greatest friends (Vidal). Xerxes son Artaxerxes sent "the friend closest to the bosom of his late father" to the Athenians, where, it turns out, he is despised, insulted and talked
about incessantly (Vidal). As the book opens, he is listening-much to his displeasure-to a six-hour lecture on the "Persian Wars" by the historian Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical
figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here, Cyrus, who is blind, laments that he is not deaf as well, because he has to
sit through what he considers nonsense about Persia, and about the people he knows (Vidal). He is so annoyed that he decides hell dictate the true account of things to
his nephew Democritus and thus the book is the story that he tells. First we learn that Cyruss grandfather is Zoroaster, the founder of a religion very similar to Christianity.
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