About

Christos Leontios

Christos Leontios writes historical thrillers set in the Roman world of Late Antiquity. He grew up in northern Greece, studied Classics and linguistics at postgraduate level, and has spent his working life between languages, ancient and modern. His series, The Silver Meridian, follows a modern negotiator who walks through a Sicilian sea-cave into the spring of AD 599 and sets out to save the Roman Empire from the mutiny that will destroy it. Volume I, The Smallest Coin, is published on 15 January 2027.

The lion

The mark on this site is the Lion of Amphipolis, the great marble lion that has kept watch over the Strymon in Macedonia since the fourth century BC.

Contact

For readers, reviewers, booksellers and the press: [email protected]. Bluesky @christosleontios.com, X @Chr_Leontios, Facebook Christos Leontios.