Three Hundred Years of Slavery. Greece, 373 BC. For three centuries, the Messenian people have been brutally subjugated by their Spartan neighbours andforced to work the land as helot slaves. Diocles, a seventeen-year-old helot, has known no other lifebut servitude. After an encounter withSpartan assassins, he is forced to flee, leaving behind his family and his love, Elpis. On Mount Ithome, the ancient sanctuary of the Messenians, he meetsAristomenes, an old rebel who still remembers the proud history of their people and clings to a prophecy that they will one daywin backtheir freedom.A forlorn hope, perhaps. But elsewhere in Greece, there are others too who believe it is timethat the power of Spartawas broken.
Three Hundred Years of Slavery. Greece, 373 BC. For three centuries, the Messenian people have been brutally subjugated by their Spartan neighbours andforced to work the land as helot slaves. Diocles, a seventeen-year-old helot, has known no other lifebut servitude. After an encounter withSpartan assassins, he is forced to flee, leaving behind his family and his love, Elpis. On Mount Ithome, the ancient sanctuary of the Messenians, he meetsAristomenes, an old rebel who still remembers the proud history of their people and clings to a prophecy that they will one daywin backtheir freedom.A forlorn hope, perhaps. But elsewhere in Greece, there are others too who believe it is timethat the power of Spartawas broken.