spartan and theban supremacies, 404-362 b.c

"Travel back in time with brothers Arthur and Finn to help persuade a troubled centurion to change the decisions he makes that lead to his untimely death"--.

Explains what a visit to Athens would have been like in 360 B.C., describing the Agora, houses and furnishings, clothing, women, children, slaves, schoolboys, physicians, funerals, trade, the military, festivals, country life, and other aspects of ancient Greek life.

When slaves rebel in ancient Sparta, twelve-year-old Lysander, guarded by an heirloom amulet, the Fire of Ares, is caught between the Spartan ruling class, with whom he has been training as a warrior since his noble heritage was revealed, and those among whom he was recently laboring as a slave.

In 399 B.C. in Athens, thirteen-year-old Pandora dreads her upcoming marriage to a man twice her age, but a chance meeting with the philosopher Socrates encourages her to question traditional female roles and to seek her own truth.