Cancel culture is everywhere: Conn Iggulden on the battle to bring his book to life

In ancient Athens, if you got too big for your boots, your fellow citizens could elect to have you ostracised. Just 6,000 votes, written on pottery shards and placed in an urn, was enough to have you banished for 10 years on pain of death. When I suggest to historical fiction author Conn Iggulden – whose recent bestsellers The Gates Of Athens and Protector bring the Greco-Persian Wars to life in brilliant detail – that this was a precursor to today’s so-called cancel culture, he roars with laughter: “You’re absolutely right! I hadn’t put those two things together but of course that’s what it is.
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