The virginal royal priests of the vulture goddess Ama of the ancient Egyptian delta Kingdom of Anama serve in their fourteenth-year. It is minor royal house prince Nefer whose fate it is to be high priest in a year when Anama is under attack by Assyria and Nefer has to participate in the kingdom's sexual battle blessing ritual and then in the consequences of defeat.]
Politician teaches a graduate class in lying. This is NOT based on current events in this galaxy. Would I lie? In which we learn that you can lie to some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you don't need to lie to all of the people all of the time. The truth works just fine. Once they stop paying attention to your lies, they can't handle the truth.
Minor fourteen-year-old Phoenician prince Hiero, whose mother is Greek, is sent with his tutor and desired lover Ikaros by ship across the Mediterranean Sea to Greece to escape Phoenician court succession plots. It isn't Ikaros who initiates Hiero; it's Greek soldiers and Hiero arrives in Greece not in the way or to the life he expected.