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Manredi, Valario Massimo

The Lost Army

McArthur & Company, 2009

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Year of publication
2009
ISBN
9781552788165
Place of printing
Toronto
Author
Manredi, Valario Massimo
Publishers
McArthur & Company
Keyword
ANCIENT GREECE IN FICTION XENOPHON ANABASIS
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
New
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

"A village in Syria. A woman, dressed in rags and covered in blisters and sores, is seen approaching on the road coming from the north. Suspicious of her, the villagers shout and throw rocks at her. She is struck and falls. She seems dead. Her story encompasses one of the great collective acts of heroism of the ancient world. She was the mistress of Xenophon, a general in the vast army of ten thousand Greek mercenaries from virtually every Greek city state that was employed by Cyrus the Younger, in his quest to seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II. A rip-roaring adventure seen from the perspective of the women who accompanied the soldiers on their long journey. A new and intense account of the most celebrated march in man's history- the March of the Ten Thousand.

Edizione: 1st.canadian edition.