Spartan
Manfredi, Valerio Massimo A Spartan family are torn apart by a brutal law that forces them to abandon their youngest son - born lame - to the elements. But young Kleidemos is spared a lonely death by a shepherd, who raises him among the Helot peasants.Renamed Talos, the child becomes a man, and witnesses the cruel oppression of the Helots by the Spartan society he was born in to. Meanwhile, Brithos - Talos's brother by birth - is trained as a warrior and joins the rank...