Tyrant: Funeral Games

by Christian Cameron Book 3 in the Tyrant series.

First published 2010

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After Alexander’s death, his generals divide the empire while Satyrus and Melitta, the twin heirs of a Black Sea kingdom, lose their mother Srayanka to betrayal. Pursued by assassins, they flee west with their Spartan tutor Philokles as rival successors seek control of their inheritance.

The twins grow towards adulthood inside the wars of the Diadochi, where hospitality can conceal political calculation and every claimant needs ships, soldiers and money. Survival requires them to master the different Greek and Scythian traditions they inherited before they can attempt to recover a kingdom treated by greater powers as a prize.