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THE LOST ARMY
 

V
ALERIO
M
ASSIMO
M
ANFREDI
is professor of classical archaeology at Luigi Bocconi University in Milan. Further to numerous academic publications, he has published twelve works of fiction, including the Alexander trilogy, which has been translated into thirty-four languages in fifty-five countries. His novel
The Last Legion
was released as a major motion picture. He has written and hosted documentaries on the ancient world and has written screenplays for cinema and television.

 

Also by Valerio Massimo Manfredi

 

A
LEXANDER:
C
HILD OF A
D
REAM

A
LEXANDER:
T
HE
S
ANDS OF
A
MMON

A
LEXANDER:
T
HE
E
NDS OF THE
E
ARTH

S
PARTAN

T
HE
L
AST
L
EGION

H
EROES

(
formerly
The Talisman of Troy)

T
YRANT

T
HE
O
RACLE

E
MPIRE OF
D
RAGONS

T
HE
T
OWER

P
HARAOH

 
V
ALERIO
M
ASSIMO
M
ANFREDI
 
THE LOST ARMY
 

Translated from the Italian by Christine Feddersen-Manfredi

 

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First published 2008 by Macmillan

First published in paperback 2009 by Pan Books

This electronic edition published 2009 by Pan Books
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Copyright © Valerio Massimo Manfredi 2008

Translation copyright © Valerio Massimo Manfredi 2008

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Contents
 

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12

CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 14

CHAPTER 15

CHAPTER 16

CHAPTER 17

CHAPTER 18

CHAPTER 19

CHAPTER 20

CHAPTER 21

CHAPTER 22

CHAPTER 23

CHAPTER 24

CHAPTER 25

CHAPTER 26

CHAPTER 27

CHAPTER 28

CHAPTER 29

CHAPTER 30

 

To my mother

 

If the venture of the Ten Thousand was extraordinary, that of the women who followed them was nothing short of incredible.

W. W. Tarn

 
Main Characters
 

Abira
is the novel’s narrator

Abisag –
one of the girls who saves Abira

Agasias of Stymphalus (the Stymphalian) –
Greek army general

Agias of Arcadia (the Arcadian) –
Greek army general

Anaxibius –
Spartan admiral stationed at Byzantium

Archagoras –
Greek officer

Ariaeus –
commander of the Asian contingent of Cyrus’s army

Aristonymus of Methydria –
valiant Greek soldier

Artaxerxes –
the Great King, Cyrus’s brother and Emperor of the Persians

Callimachus –
Greek soldier

Cleanor of Arcadia (the Arcadian) –
Greek army general

Clearchus –
Spartan commander of the mercenary expeditionary force

Cleonimus of Methydria –
valiant Greek soldier

Ctesias –
Greek physician to Artaxerxes

Cyrus –
second son of the King of Persia, governor of Lydia

Demetrius –
young Greek soldier

Dexippus –
Greek soldier

Durgat –
Persian prisoner, one of Queen Parysatis’s ladies in waiting

Epicrates –
Greek officer

Eupitus –
Proxenus’s second-in-command, from Tanagra

Eurylochus of Lusia (the Arcadian) –
young Greek soldier

Glous –
one of Ariaeus’s cavalrymen

Lycius of Syracuse –
cavalry commander with Xeno

Lystra –
young prostitute following the army

Masabates –
Persian eunuch

Melissa –
one of Cyrus’s concubines

Menon of Thessaly (the Thessalian) –
Greek army general

Mermah –
one of the girls who saves Abira

Mithridates –
Persian general

Neon of Asine –
officer in Socrates’s battalion and Sophos’s field adjutant

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