![]() Parmenion becomes involved with Thebian conspirators who seek to overthrow Spartan control. Thebes is under the control of Sparta, governed by a puppet-government of pro–Spartan Thebans and occupied by a Spartan garrison. There, Parmenion starts a new life as a professional runner. He kills a love rival, Nestus, in duel for sending her to her death because she lost her virginity to Paremenion, a crime in Sparta and an insult to Nestus' honor and then flees to Thebes after killing him. He is an accomplished runner and a strategic genius, yet he is despised by the young Spartan nobles for being a half-blood. Parmenion is a half-blood Spartan (a Mothax) whose mother is from Macedon and his Father was a Spartan Hero who died earlier. She discovers that only a mixed-blood Spartan called Parmenion can help her. It is also the first book of the Sipstrassi series.Īs the story opens, Tamis, a sorceress, is seeing the future. Parmenion is a Spartan in training but faces prejudice and violence due to his parents being both Macedonian and Spartan and the influences of a sorceress who seeks to make him an iron general that will defeat the Dark God who seeks to destroy the world. ![]() ![]() The sequel, Dark Prince, was published in 1991. It is the first of two books following the character Parmenion. Lion of Macedon is a historic fantasy novel written by English author David Gemmell. ![]()
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