The Logomachean Method is a novella, a work of historical fiction set in ancient Athens in the very early Hellenistic period, after Alexander but shortly before the wars of the Diadochi. The story follows Logomaches, a brilliant but eccentric physician and scientist living in a pre-scientific and pre-medical era, who is called on to save Athens from a deadly epidemic, and who employs an early version of the scientific method to find the cure. However, public panic, superstition, time pressure and the intense political intrigues of Athens’s transitional regime under Macedonian occupation offer his chances of success a bleak prognosis.
