by Valerio Massimo Manfredi · Arnoldo Mondadori Editore · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788804333715
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«Lo scudo di Talos» is the historical novel by Valerio Massimo Manfredi, published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in paperback (334 pages, in Italian).
Talos, a crippled boy from Sparta, is abandoned by his family and grows up among the helots as a shepherd, while his brother Brithos is educated to become a warrior. Fate reunites them in the face of the Persian invasion: the victory of Marathon and the sacrifice of Thermopylae frame a family drama of loyalty and honor.
It belongs to Mondadori's Oscar Bestsellers collection; the novel was originally published in 1988.
For readers of historical and adventure novels set in classical Greece.
Valerio Massimo Manfredi is an Italian historian, writer, essayist, archaeologist and journalist.
