Re: What are you reading?
Well, it's not new, but anyone with a marginal interest in Ancient Greece, military history, or ancient combat techniques might find Gates of Fire (by Steven Pressfield) a good read. I've read it a few times...I'm currently working on Tides of War, which he also wrote, but it's about Alcibiades and the Peloponesian (spelling!) war, as opposed to GoF being about a single battle...there's a lot more politics and intrigue involved, and it's just not as gripping a story, overall, although I still find it an interesting read (it's just not an "I can't put this book down!" read.)
But it's perhaps far more relevant to our times than GoF, as Alcibiades was a master of creating a cult of personality, as well as being a brilliant general, and all the political tides that shifted for and against him feel disturbingly familiar in many ways.