The Sweet Girl

Aristotle's strong-willed daughter shapes her own destiny in this captivating novel by the award-winning author of The Golden Mean.

Aristotle has never been able to resist a keen mind, and Pythias is certainly her father's daughter: besting his brightest students and refusing a life circumscribed by the kitchen, the loom, and a husband. At first she is protected by her adored father's reputation, but with the death of Alexander the Great, her fortunes change. Forced to flee Athens and then o...