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Spartan, Valerio Massimo Manfredi ; translated from the Italian by Christine Feddersen-Manfredi

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Spartan, Valerio Massimo Manfredi ; translated from the Italian by Christine Feddersen-Manfredi

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eng

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fiction

Main title

Spartan

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Valerio Massimo Manfredi ; translated from the Italian by Christine Feddersen-Manfredi

Summary

Herodotus tells us that not all of the three hundred Spartan warriors died at the hands of Xerxes, King of the Persians, in the battle of the Thermopylae: two were saved bringing a life-saving message back to the city ...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. They live out their story in a world dominated by the clash between the Persian empire and the city-states of Greece - a ferocious, relentless conflict - until the voice of their blood and of human solidarity unites them in a thrilling, singular enterprise

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