About the book: 2021 / Mid-5th century. BC e. The first strategist of Athens, Pericles, during a holiday in honor of Dionysus, accidentally ends up in illegal fights without rules. The winner is the Thracian who kills his opponent. It turns out that this is Sparadok, the overthrown king of the Odrysians. A plan is brewing in Pericles’ mind - he needs just such a person in the Bosporus as the governor of Athens. So Sparadok becomes Spartacus. With the help of the Athenian squadron, he will have to capture the capital of the Bosporan state Panticapaeum, concentrate power in his hands and thus become the founder of a new dynasty... but how many destinies will this war break?!