Word: persinna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only a sand-flea bite compared to the other dangers awaiting dauntless Theagenes and Charicleia. She is determined to achieve her rightful place in the world, having learned that she is actually the daughter of King Hydaspes of Ethiopia. Because Charicleia was born white, her terrified mother, Queen Persinna, had exposed her on a mountainside to escape the wrath of the King, but a kindly merchant found the infant and saw that she was transported safely to Greece. Before she can make it home. Charicleia is captured by pirates, sold into slavery, cast into a dungeon, poisoned, sentenced...
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