Owls to Athens [SEP] series
Owls to Athens
Owls to Athens is the fourth book in the Hellenic Traders series by H.N. Turteltaub (a pseudonym of Harry Turtledove). Like the others in the series it is a work of historical fiction concerning the adventures of a pair of Greek traders from Rhodes.
Title.
"Taking owls to Athens" was a contemporary Greek saying, roughly the equivalent of the modern "selling snow to eskimos" or "carrying coals to Newcastle". The saying referred to the owl depicted on Athenian silver drachmas,
the course of 2013 to 2015.
The series currently consists of four books:
- "Over the Wine Dark Sea" (2001, re-released September 2013)
- "The Gryphon's Skull" (2002, re-released April 2014)
- "The Sacred Land" (2003, re-released December 2014)
- "Owls to Athens" (2004, re-released March 2015)
Turtledove also wrote "Justinian", which takes place in the early Byzantine Empire.