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Segunda parte de la trilogía Aléxandros, en la que el Valerio Massimo Manfredi nos relata la vida de Alejandro Magno, uno de los mayores héroes militares de la antigüedad. En Anatolia corta el nudo gordiano; dicen que quien lo deshaga dominará el confín del mundo. Finalmente, él y sus hombres derrotan al poderoso Darío, rey de los persas. Así, las tropas victoriosas de Alejandro avanzan hasta Egipto, donde el oráculo de Amón le revela su origen divino y su destino de gloria inmortal. 

El ejército macedonio se adentra en Babilonia y asesta el golpe final al secular imperio persa. Alejandro aspira a convertir el mundo conocido en una sola nación bajo su mando, pero pocos comparten su sueño. Se urden conjuras, y el rey se ve arrastrado hacia una vorágine de violencia. Solo el amor de Roxana puede aliviar su soledad. Ella le infundirá el valor necesario para llegar a la India misteriosa y luego la fuerza para buscar el camino de retorno. 

Nadie puede permanecer indiferente ante la belleza de Alejandro, ni ante la grandiosidad de su imperio, que se extendió desde el Danubio hasta el Indo. Un hombre considerado como un dios por sus contemporáneos, de ardientes sueños y violentas pasiones, que le consumieron hasta finalmente destruirle. Su vida transcurrió en un mundo de leyenda. Esta es su historia. 

Storpio, e per questo abbandonato dalla famiglia, lo spartano Talos sembra condannato a una vita da pastore e a non diventare mai un valoroso guerriero come l'intrepido fratello Brithos. Ma il destino è tortuoso e avvicina i due fratelli, che si troveranno fianco a fianco nella lotta contro gli invasori persiani. 

La convivialità dei banchetti, il ricorso a pratiche divinatorie, la condizione emancipata della donna, la proprietà privata terriera, la pianta della città basata su cardo e decumano: elementi disparati di una medesima eredità, quella che ci deriva da un popolo fra i più affascinanti, gli Etruschi.

Anno Domini 476. Nella pianura fra Pavia e Piacenza, una coltre di nebbia ricopre il paesaggio. Ad un tratto un'orda di cavalieri barbari emerge dalla foschia e si abbatte sul campo della Legio Nova Invicta, leggendario baluardo della romanità a difesa di Romolo Augustolo, un ragazzo di tredici anni, l'ultimo imperatore romano d'Occidente. Ma non tutti muoiono nel massacro. Dal campo risorge un gruppo di legionari che paiono immortali. A loro si aggiunge Livia Prisca, formidabile guerriera.

Alexander: Child of a Dream is the first in Valerio Massimo Manfredi's outstanding trilogy of brutal passion and grand adventure in Ancient Greece. Who could have been born to conquer the world other than a god? A boy born to a great king, Philip of Macedon, and his sensual queen, Olympias, Alexander became a young man of immense, unfathomable potential.

Roma se prepara para una de las mayores expediciones de su historia: el emperador Nerón, a sugerencia de su consejero el filósofo Séneca, planea remontar el Nilo en busca de sus fuentes. Será un viaje más allá de los límites del mundo conocido, una gran maniobra militar que extenderá los dominios del imperio. Voreno y Varea participarán en ella.

Sicily 405 AD: the infinite duel between a man and a superpower begins. The man is Dionysius, who has just made himself Tyrant of Syracuse. The superpower Carthage, mercantile megalopolis and mistress of the seas. Over the next eight years, Dionysius' brutal military conquests will strike down countless enemies and many friends to make Syracuse the most powerful Greek city west of mainland Greece.

El trágico y conmovedor episodio del delicado amor que unió al anciano Miguel Ángel con la poetisa Vittoria Colonna. Una misteriosa espada de oro protagonista de un relato de intriga a medio camino entre la arqueología y la política internacional. Un alfarero de la antigua Atenas, involuntario artífice de la condena del gran Alcibíades...Valerio Massimo Manfredi, autor de célebres novelas históricas, se aventura en el género del cuento, regalándonos estas trece joyas de la narrativa breve.

The story opens on the day that the Western Roman Empire collapses finally in 470 AD, as the last emperor of Rome is encamped protected by the Nova Invicta Legion. All is lost in the space of a few minutes as a horde of Barbarians sweep through the camp in the fog, kill the Imperial family, and take the young emperor captive. The Roman Empire is in ruins. But all is not lost. From the dust of battlefields emerges a small team of invincible warriors: The Last Legion.

This is the saga of a Spartan family, torn apart by a cruel law that forces them to abandon one of their two sons, born lame, to the elements. The elder son, Brithos, is raised in the caste of the warriors, while the other, Talos, is spared a cruel death and is raised by a Helot shepherd, among the peasants.

Alexander's epic quest continues into the heart of Asia and on towards the mystery of India. The Macedonian army marches ever onward in search of glory, crushing resistance at every turn. The culture and beauty of Babylon is quickly ravaged, and the Palace of Persepolis burnt to ashes and cinders. An empire is destroyed and a new and bloody era begins.

After months of forced labour, a Roman emperor's guards escape from a Persian mine. They meet a mysterious, exiled Chinese Prince, Dan Qing, and agree to safeguard his journey home. Thus begins the adventures of the Romans and the Prince as they journey to China. There the Westerners will discover that they aren't the first of their kind to arrive in China - they were preceded centuries before by the survivors of the "lost legion".

Il mondo è in continua evoluzione. Insieme a esso cambiano le nazioni, i popoli, e gli animi. Si può ancora parlare di Spirito di una nazione senza cadere in beceri anacronismi? Valerio Massimo Manfredi, questa volta in veste di osservatore contemporaneo, dice la sua su quel che vuol dire essere italiani. Illustrerà la simbiosi con il territorio, la storia millenaria, i pregi e i difetti delle genti che hanno abitato queste terre.

Alexander's epic quest continues. In a seemingly impossible venture, Alexander and his men storm Persian fortresses and harbours, crippling King Darius' domination of land and sea. Even the legendary Halicarnassus is defeated by the Macedinoan armies. Ruthlessly, Alexander's war machine moves ever onward taking him up into the snow-covered Anatolian highlands, and ever closer to his destiny.

The protagonist of this tale is Diomedes, the last of the great ancient Greek Homeric heroes, who seeks to return to his beloved homeland after years of war against Troy. But destiny has other plans for him. Betrayed by his wife, who plots to murder him, and persecuted by hostile gods, he has no choice but to turn his sails west, towards Hesperia, the mysterious mist-shrouded land that will one day be called Italy.

As a young boy in Ithaca, Odysseus listens in wonder to his grandfather Autolykos. He learns of his heritage and a lifelong passion is sparked: to become an adventurer and warrior. In Mycenae, he meets King Eurystheus and learns the terrible story of Hercules who slaughtered his family and whose punishment was to undertake impossible tasks to earn absolution. But is Eurystheus the man he says he is?

La bellezza del suo viso ci è stata tramandata dallo scultore Lisippo. Le sue imprese le ha raccontate la Storia: un impero sconfinato, dal Danubio all'Indo, difficile da immaginare, impossibile da credere. Ma chi era davvero Alessandro, il giovane re macedone che, nel IV secolo a.C. concepì il disegno della conquista del mondo intero, per poi morire, come Cristo, all'età di trentatré anni?

3 BC. Two wild Germanic brothers, Armin and Wulf, are held hostage in Rome to keep their father from rebelling against the Empire. As the years pass, they are moulded into ideal soldiers: brave, disciplined, ruthless. Attributes that are to be tested when a conspiracy arises, threatening their emperor and the Empire’s future.... As serving Roman soldiers, the brothers are separated at opposite ends of the Empire, each proving their bloody might on the battlefield.