by Valerio Massimo Manfredi · Mondadori · tapa dura · ISBN 9788804562108
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«L'armata perduta» is the historical novel by Valerio Massimo Manfredi, published by Mondadori in hardback (413 pages, in Italian).
L'armata perduta is inspired by Xenophon's Anabasis: it recounts the retreat of the Ten Thousand Greek mercenaries after the defeat of Cyrus the Younger at Babylon, and their journey through hostile territories to the Black Sea. The story centres on Abira, a Syrian woman who leaves her village to follow Xenos.
Bancarella Prize 2008; Valerio Massimo Manfredi studied and translated Xenophon's Anabasis in the 1980s, the source of this novel.
For readers of historical and adventure fiction interested in classical antiquity; the edition is in Italian.
Valerio Massimo Manfredi is an Italian historian, writer, essayist, archaeologist and journalist.
