{"subtitle": "A Novel of Seafaring Adventure in the Ancient World", "description": "A proud Phoenician prince fights to protect his people from ambitious enemies--and to save himself from the unwelcome glory of marriage to the legendary Queen Dido.  His weapons are courage and a sailor's skill--his only ally, Hera, an incredibly beautiful Grecian girl, who owes him even more than her life.\r\n\r\nWith the clash of swords and the thrust of spears, *The Purple Quest* builds to an exciting climax in the city of Tyre and aboard the ships that for five hundred hears had carried Phoenicians to the farthest corners of the world.", "title": "The Purple Quest", "covers": [6554912], "subject_places": ["Tyre"], "subjects": ["Fiction", "Dido (Legendary character)", "Seafaring life", "Fiction in English", "Fiction, general"], "subject_people": ["Phoenicians", "Hera"], "key": "/works/OL99236W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL17969A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 10, "revision": 10, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-17T17:55:04.517093"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-07-06T09:51:34.964514"}}