Contents

Cover

Title Page

Preface

Map

Part One. Holy Leuktra

Chapter One.

Mêlon Comes to Leuktra

Chapter Two.

Lichas the Spartan

Chapter Three.

General Epaminondas

Chapter Four.

Helikon

Chapter Five.

Spartans

Chapter Six.

The Breaking Point

Chapter Seven.

The Circle Closes

Chapter Eight.

The Battle Above

Chapter Nine.

The King of Sparta

Chapter Ten.

The Wages of Battle

Chapter Eleven.

Ripples of Leuktra

Part Two. Between Peace and War

Chapter Twelve.

The Lizard’s Tail

Chapter Thirteen.

The Fall of Mêlon

Chapter Fourteen.

The House of the Goddess

Chapter Fifteen.

Nêto Unbound

Chapter Sixteen.

The Healing of Mêlon

Chapter Seventeen.

On the Road to Thebes

Chapter Eighteen.

The Great Debate

Chapter Nineteen.

No Man a Slave

Chapter Twenty.

The New Mantineia

Chapter Twenty-one.

Two Women

Part Three. The March Down Country

Chapter Twenty-two.

The Great Muster

Chapter Twenty-three.

Chiôn Goes South

Chapter Twenty-four.

A Free Messenia

Chapter Twenty-five.

The Night of the Three Armies

Chapter Twenty-six.

The Plains Afire

Chapter Twenty-seven.

The Visions of Proxenos

Chapter Twenty-eight.

Lord Kuniskos of the Helots

Chapter Twenty-nine.

Erinna of Messenia

Part Four. Freedom

Chapter Thirty.

The Shadows of Mt. Taygetos

Chapter Thirty-one.

All Roads to Messenia

Chapter Thirty-two.

The End of the Beginning

Chapter Thirty-three.

The Reckoning

Chapter Thirty-four.

The Old Breed

Chapter Thirty-five.

The Way Back

Chapter Thirty-six.

The Restoration

Chapter Thirty-seven.

Epaminondas Returns

Chapter Thirty-eight.

The Anabasis

A Historical Postscript

The Peoples and Places of Fourth-Century B.C. Greece

Principal Characters

Timeline

Footnote

A Note on the Author

By the Same Author

Imprint