Book 2: Chapter 3; Book 3: Chapter 1-2 Summary

Theseus gets ready to go into his first big war. He looks for someone to leave his sword to to take to Athens to the king if he dies in battle but can't find anyone that he trusts with that secret. When he gets up to leave for the battle the queen doesn't get out of bed to see him off but seems sad. They meet up with Megarians and the first castle they come to in Isthmus is called Sinis. They take the city in just a few days and kill every man in the city and keep the riches and the women of the cities as spoils. The queens brother, Xanthos, tries to give Theseus' men a smaller amount of the spoils but Theseus openly comments on how much fighting his men have...