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Book 3. The human face of Ancient history, Gods of Men, Rise of the Wolf is the third in my dramatic biopic charting the life and times of the Spartan Admiral/General Lysander 455 BCE [?] to 395 BCE) and is a uniquely Spartan perspective of the Peloponnesian War and Spartan society in dramatized form. This Third novel, covers the period from 429 to 425 BCE. From the Siege of Plataea to the Battle of Pylos...
Between fighting the Delians and training his young Hearer, the lame prince Agesilaos, Lysander is pressured into taking a wife, the beautiful Telephassa. It may not be love, but the marriage is acceptable, and Telephassa soon falls pregnant. Meanwhile, Old King Archidamos dies and his son, Agis ascends the Eurypontid throne. His co-king, Pleistoanax of the Agiads is recalled from exile following corruption and skullduggery at Delphi…

The hated enemy, Athens is still beset by the plague and civil unrest from troublesome allies on Lesbos and civil war on Korcyra…

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