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Originally Posted by ATDrake
The Ionia Sanction by Gary Corby is a sleuthy mystery/adventure thriller set in historical Ancient Greece, and really is historical, with this episode, the 2nd in series, being centred around a certain event involving the real-life Athenian general turned Persian satrap Themistocles, whose Wikipedia entry I won't link to because it'll probably spoiler you for what happens in the book.
In any case, author Corby does a fairly decent job of interweaving his fictional sleuth and activities with real-life personages (his amateur sleuth is a made-up brother for the real Socrates, who's a teenaged boy in this, and makes this the 2nd Ancient Greek sleuthy famous philosopher-related series that I know of, the other being Margaret Doody's Aristotle books which one day I'll have to try).
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Thanks, added to my TBR list. Library has the series available.