Cephalos Ward of Eleusis

Cephalos, Ward of Eleusis, is a five-book volume of translations ofthe Archival Chronicles of Mentor, son of Alkimos (born in 1285BC). By the end of the fi ve books, such histories by entablature,beginning with the grandparents of Cephalos and continuingthrough his parents' ascendancies, have related his own great rise,spanning from 1380 to 1362 BC. In his style of protohistory about early Greece, S. W. Bardot adaptshis mastery of the Oldest Greek texts to translations of scriptedLinear B, all by other scholars of antiquity as most adept to Mentr'swrit. That contemporary narrator, a conceit of the Bardot Group,looks back from an ensuing century, the thirteenth BC. Cephalos and the Kekropids, the second book in the serialization,brings us to Cephalos' teenage years, the 1370s BC, when his navalinitiatives can confi dently progress through the extensive peace andprosperity that his father, Deion, has created for all of the northmainland. There is a juggernaut of prodigious feats by Cephalos ashe develops overland commerce by caravans and is assigned a gamutof shore offi ces and commands. This Third Archival Chronicle alsointroduces Skia of Aphidnai, the mortal incarnation of Eos theGoddess of the Dawn, and Cephalos' greatest love.