Arimnestos of Plataea is a man who has seen & done things that most men only dream about. Sold into slavery as a boy he fought his way to freedom
- & then to everlasting fame at the Battle of Marathon where the Greeks crushed the invading Persians. Sometimes however a mans greatest triumph is followed by his greatest sorrow. Returning to his farm Arimnestos finds that his wife Euphoria has died in childbirth & in an instant his laurels turn to dust. But the gods are not finished with Arimnestos yet. With nothing left to live for he throws himself from a cliff into the sea only to be pulled by strong arms from deaths embrace. When he awakes he finds himself chained to an oar in a Phoenician trireme. & so begins an epic journey that will take Arimnestos & a motley crew of fellow galley slaves to the limits of their courage & beyond the edge of the known world in a quest for freedom revenge
- & a cargo so precious it is worth dying for.