The Arrows of Hercules
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| Author | L. Sprague de Camp |
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| Cover artist | Charles McCurry |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical novel |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 1965 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 297 |
| Preceded by | The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate |
| Followed by | An Elephant for Aristotle |
The Arrows of Hercules is an historical novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardback by Doubleday in 1965 and in paperback by Curtis Books in 1970. The book was reissued with a new introduction by Harry Turtledove as a trade paperback and ebook by Phoenix Pick in April 2014. It is the fourth of de Camp's historical novels in order of writing, and second chronologically, set in the time of Dionysios I of Syracuse at the end of the 5th and beginning of the 4th centuries BC.