"...and no one can say how the world would be today if Persian imperialism had prevailed then, with its boundless wealth and the wisdom of a slave. It was the clash of two different civilizations, two different worlds, and the 'few free' prevailed."

Through the eyes of a child, who was taken captive from Lemnos, unfolds the epic of the ancient world. Alkamenes manages to reach Sparta, to get to know this unique city up close, but also to witness the events in the greatest military conflicts in history. As a captive, as a dying man, as an observer, he becomes the mythical axis that carries all the harshness but also the allure of a world that one could call contemporary. Above all, "The Wooden Wall" is the human adventure, the human being. The epic of his struggles, but also his perception of life and fate, of Hades, of the soul. And only the decision of those 'few' to defy the Hubris of Persian imperialism gives the measure of the era. With a lively and insightful language, with events unfolding in their archetypal poetry, the novel cancels time, becoming an adventure of today's man on the same earth.

A novel that traces, in the depths of the soul, the collective memory of blood and lost self-awareness.