The ancient age is closely related to the awakening of the human being as a civilization. Cities, social strata, political organization ... Everything started from Sumer in the 476th century BC. C and officially ended after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in XNUMX ... then it is not that things evolved much, the Middle Ages appeared as a phase of darkness that at times seemed to retrace all advance of this civilization extended from the Mare Nostrum .
From that time that almost spanned a millennium, everything known knows Valerio Massimo Manfredi, probably the historian of Antiquity par excellence.
And if a connoisseur of our origins as a universal civilization begins to write historical novel In this regard, we make sure to live adventures of the most authentic respect to who we were ...
Top 3 best novels of Valerio Massimo Manfredi
The Ides of March
It takes getting the best of oneself as a writer to catch readers who are preparing to read a story with a marked and well-known tragic ending. Manfredi focuses on the last eight days of Julius Caesar.
In an ancient world, with pretensions of modernity in the civil, mythological influences, old beliefs and tricks still served as the basis for associating fate with what was to happen.
The political conspiracy of those days of authentic revolution seeks the protection of other greats of ancient Rome. And at times Manfredi seems to convince us that something different is going to happen.
His approach reveals aspects that could lead to other endings, awakening that hope for another ending, for a uchronic alternative to what was narrated that, under the seal of this great author, could even convince us that history may have changed with the reading of the novel.
Odysseus. Return
Without a doubt, the character of Ulysses is captivating for Manfredi. In the first installment of this saga we met the character before reaching his epic glory. And with these two novels we get a composition that elevates Odysseus or
Ulysses towards a humanity above his hero condition. In this final sequel we discover Ulysses returning home after the Trojan War. Except that the gods have not yet fully squeezed the hero and are going to face a new adventure of years between dangers, mutinies of his crew and despair. Ithaca is waiting for him, but the ticket to reach Penelope's arms is a real trip to hell.
The Last Legion
After centuries of advance of an empire that seemed to go on forever, Rome has suffered external and internal challenges of all kinds that have worn it down. The barbarians are even capable of kidnapping Romulus Augustus, the young emperor of the western Roman Empire.
Among the last faithful soldiers they undertake a search for their emperor in order to rescue him. And they succeed. Only in flight they undertake an adventure they would never imagine. Their journey leads them to Britain, where the last sea stretched from the confines of the known world.
But what they will have to know then is an aspect of the world that they could never imagine. A wonderful novel that summarizes the adventure with that fascinating period of the decline of an empire.
