Creation is Gore Vidal's sweeping historical novel narrated by Cyrus Spitama, the half-Greek, half-Persian grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, as he recounts a lifetime spent at the crossroads of the ancient world's greatest civilizations. Sent as an ambassador for the Persian kings Darius and Xerxes, Cyrus travels from the imperial courts of India to the philosophical salons of Athens, encountering the most transformative minds of his age, including Confucius, the Buddha, and Socrates, in a series of vivid, philosophically charged exchanges. Through these encounters, Vidal weaves together the competing visions of meaning, morality, and cosmic order that gave rise to the world's enduring wisdom traditions. Deeply researched yet novelistically alive, Creation invites readers to witness the fifth century BC not as a distant epoch, but as the moment when humanity first asked and began to answer its most essential questions.
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