A TUMULTUOUS NATION NEAR CIVIL WAR.
THE MOST UNLIKELY BUT PASSIONATE
ROMANCE IN HISTORY
Around 200 BC
Sparta, a third-rate backwater after centuries of decline
A rockier start to a relationship is hard to imagine.
Forced to watch the hanging of her husband, Agiatis
is certain her own death is near because of her involvement
in her husband's failed reforms. Instead, King Leonidas II
of Sparta commands her to marry his eighteen-year-old-son,
Cleomenes. Who could have guessed that she would mold him into
the greatest reformer in Sparta's long history, as well as
her mightiest warrior? But surrounded by enemies and a rising
Roman superpower, will that be enough?
A POIGNANT STORY OF PASSION AND HONOR
DURING THE TIME OF CLEOMENES III
IN ANCIENT GREECE