Life under Macedonia rule of ancient Sparta was tenuous at best and the Spartan people were little more than chattel. Spartan men were judged guilty without trial and were executed at will. Spartan women were worthless slaves free to be raped and discarded like garbage. The few Spartans who dared resist were slaughtered on the spot. Even in the midst of this carnage, love could not be extinguished as Hippomedon, a disenchanted Spartan aristocrat,...