The secret of king Leonidas is my favorite book because I like the Sparta wars and its content.

Ancient Greece, 30 BC The Persians, before attacking Sparta, send ambassadors demanding its neutrality. At the same time the twelve-year-old Pleistarchus, son of King Leonidas, has left his family and is training in a camp of ancient Sparta, like all young Spartans. Some people try to kill him there, but Pleistarchus manages to escape and with his cousin, Agathocles, they try to find the killers.

Things get difficult when the second king of Sparta, Leotychidas, arrests and imprisons Leonidas, who wants to fight the enemy at the gates of Thermo. The two children and their company from the camp take action. The fate of the homeland is in their hands.

A few words about the author

Thanos Kondylis was born in Athens and in 2006, after much study in Greece and abroad, he was awarded a PhD in History at the School of Philosophy in Athens. He speaks English, French and Italian. He is distinguished for his great love for the Greek family, the Greek Orthodox education and the book. In 1996 and 2002 what was written by the Greek Parliament for his writing. In 2015 he was awarded by the University of Athens and his dissertation on medieval Nafplio.

For a number of years he was a collaborator of the National Research Foundation and the Ministry of Culture. He now deals exclusively with creative writing. He has successfully authored more than thirty books. novels, short stories, children’s books, historical works and essays, some of which have been translated abroad.

Source: Kondylis Th.,’The secret of king leonidas’MINOAS,2016