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Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Biography

Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Valerio Massimo Manfredi is a professor of classical archaeology at Luigi Bocconi University in Milan.  He is the author of thirteen novels including the Alexander trilogy, which has ben translated into thrty-four languages in fifty-five coutnries.

Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Books by Valerio Massimo Manfredi

by Valerio Massimo Manfredi - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mythology

As a young boy in Ithaca, Odysseus learns of his heritage and a lifelong passion is sparked: to become an adventurer and warrior. He meets King Eurystheus and learns the terrible story of Hercules - the man with god-like strength who slaughtered his family and punished by the King to undertake impossible tasks to earn absolution. But is Eurystheus the man he says he is? When a child comes to Odysseus in the middle of the night, with another, very disturbing, version of what happened that fateful night, Odysseus embarks on the first of his extraordinary quests ...