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