The Last Lion of Sparta

 

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?