Gods of Men: Rise of the Wolf

Book #3 in the factually inspired saga of the life of Lysander...

Lysander, the "Wolf of Sparta" earns his bones as an elite warrior, and one of the revered 300...

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 beset by the plague and civil unrest from troublesome allies, but they refuse to surrender and the war drags on...

Back in Sparta, Lysander takes a wife, Telephassa and father's a daughter, Eupolia, but his heart belongs to his lover and protégée, Prince Agesilaos...

Athens still refuses to meet the mighty Spartans and her Peloponnesian allies in a pitched hoplite battle, and a new sort of warfare is born - attrition...

Pericles succumbs to the plague, and the ambitious rabble rouser Cleon rises to prominence, and he is determined to continue the war with Sparta for his own personal ends...

Brasidas "Tamer of Mortals" is sent to the Gulf of Corinth, where a stubborn Athenian admiral, Phormio has defeated a Peloponnesian fleet of forty-seven ships with a squadron on just twenty, and it begins to dawn on Sparta, that at sea, the Peloponnesians are weak and vulnerable and only a radical solution can resolve the imbalance...

On the Island of Corcyra, murder, intrigue and revolution festers between the democrats and oligarchs. Within days, Brasidas arrives with a large fleet of ships and defeats the Corcyraean navy and a squadron of Athenian ships are forced to retreat. The civil war on Corcyra continues unabated...

Sparta receives a devastating blow on the island of Sphacteria, and Brasidas is seriously wounded in battle and his life hangs in the balance...