Explanation:
Amyntas is the youngest athlete – too young for military service – in the Athenian delegation to the Olympic Games in the year after the reignition of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. In the athletes' quarters he meets Leon, his Spartan competitor in the boys' double stade footrace, and befriends him despite Amyntas's shyness and Leon's taciturnity.
