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The Book of the Muse Euterpe
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Second book of the Saga: Herodotus; Histories Reloaded 2.0.
If you have ever wondered where the vast majority of ancient stories of heroes and battles, kings and queens, pharaohs, gods and devils comes from, as well as the stories of humble slaves who fought to made revolutions, beautiful but treacherous women and horrible sorceresses that you have surely seen a thousand times on the big screen, well, the answer is that they all (or almost all of them) directly comes from the pen (or better said, the feather) of the great Greek historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus and his Nine Books of the History, written two thousand five hundred years ago, in the fifth century BC. The same nine books that now, in the XXI century, I present to you again in a modern fictionalized edition which is spicy, mischievous, politically incorrect, bad spoken and very funny.
Movies such as: the Gods of Egypt and the Mummy, or Troy with Brad Pitt playing Achilles, as well as Odyssey with Armand Assante in the role of Ulysses - Disney's cartoons such as Hercules, Joseph King of Dreams and Aladdin or the mythical movie 300 with Gerard Butler playing the role of the Spartan king Leonidas fighting in the battle of Thermopylae, are just a few small examples of what the great historian of Halicarnassus has left us written by his own handwriting, or has served as inspiration for other authors who came after him to create their artworks of fiction based on that solid historical basis; including, of course, the humble Italian author who is now writing this short presentation to you.
In this second book of the Saga Herodotus, Histories Reloaded 2.0, we will explore and learn in depth about the Ancient Egypt of the Pharaohs seen with the curious eyes of our mythical traveler-adventurer Herodotus of Halicarnassus, as he saw and lived it 2500 years ago. It will be a truly fascinating journey for you, the reader, a travel full of anecdotes in which youy will discover the secrets of an ancient civilization, the Egyptian, which has given us everything or almost everything we know today...
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The Crusade of Peter the Hermit
The Crusade of Peter the Hermit
Series: The History of the Eight Crusades - Book 1 of 4
(A5 Format - 370 Pages - Available in English, Spanish and Italian)
From the proclamation of Pope Urban II in Clermont, France, on November 27, 1095, to the formation of the European "first crusader army" under the command of Friar Peter the Hermit and composed mostly of peasants with their women and children, passing then through the cruel massacres of 12,000 German, Hungarian and Czech Jews in May 1096, until the last bloody battle against the Saracen Turks at Civetot, Turkey, on October 21, 1096, where that first motley and dirty Crusader army will be completely annihilated by the Turkish Muslims. Almost all men will end up dead, while all the youngest, most beautiful women and children will end up sold as sex slaves in the markets of the Middle East.
The Blood of Jerusalem - Volume 1
The Blood of Jerusalem - Volume 1
Series: The History of the Eight Crusades - Book 2 of 4
(A5 Format - 484 Pages - Available in English, Spanish and Italian)
From the arrival of the most important European Crusader nobles, military and religious in Constantinople, at Christmas 1096, to the horrific discovery and burial of the 40,000+ Christian dead from the fierce battle of Civetot, the siege of Nicaea and the battles of Dorylaea & Tarsus, through the long and agonizing march (1182 km) of the Crusader army throughout the inhospitable Anatolian desert in the middle of the summer of 1097. A simply frightful march in which thousands of men, (many coming with their wives and children) will die of exhaustion scorched by heat, disease, hunger and thirst, until finally reaching the creation of the first Latin Christian County of Edessa by the cunning and treacherous Count Baldwin of Boulogne, on March 10, 1098.
The Blood of Jerusalem - Volume 2
The Blood of Jerusalem - Volume 2
Series: The History of the Eight Crusades - Book 3 of 4
(A5 Format - 567 Pages - Available in English, Spanish and Italian)
From the very long and agonizing siege of Antioch between 1097-1098, to the bloody battles of Saruç, Albara, San Simeon, Harem, the Fortified Bridge and the Lake, to the constitution of the Latin Christian Principality of Antioch by the Italian Norman prince Bohemond of Taranto in June 1098... And from here, passing through some incredible, but absolutely true events such as the alleged miracle of the Holy Lance of Jesus Christ, a devastating earthquake accompanied by the unexpected and inexplicable appearance in the night sky -(unexpected and inexplicable given the southern latitude)- of a sinister Aurora Borealis, together with the tragic ordeal of fire that will cost the life of the mystical Provençal visionary Peter Bartholomew, we will finally reach the mysterious bearded hermit of the Mount of Olives and the creation of the Latin Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem by the illustrious Duke Godfrey of Bouillon, on July 15, 1099.
The Dawn of the Templars
The Dawn of the Templars
Series: The History of the Eight Crusades - Book 4 of 4
(A5 Format - 480 Pages - Available in English, Spanish and Italian)
From the arrival of the founder of the Templar Order, Hugh de Payens to Jaffa in Palestine in the spring of 1104, to the election as the first "King of Jerusalem" of Duke Godfrey of Bouillon, (who but would always prefer to be called Advocate for the Defense of the Holy Sepulchre and not King), through the turbulent, hasty and irregular election of the French religious Arnulf Malecorne de Choques as the first Catholic Patriarch of that sacred city, until the election of the ultra-corrupt Italian bishop Dagobert of Pisa as the new Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem. We will also step on the battlefield in the terrible "Battle of Ashkelon" where the Christians, in serious numerical inferiority, defeated the Muslims of the Egyptian Vizier al-Afdal Shahanshah. We will investigate the suspicious deaths (due to a more than probable poisoning) of King Godfrey, Count Guarnerio de Grez and Count Baldwin of Boulogne, until finally arriving at the constitution in Jerusalem of the "Poor Knights of Christ of Solomon's Temple"; better known as the Knights Templar in 1118. And finally we will finish with the battles of Montgisard, of the Fountain of Cresson and the horrific battle of the Horns of Hattin, on July 4, 1187, where the Sultan Saladin himself, will behead the evil Raynald of Châtillon in front of his own King, Guy of Lusignan.
The Book of the Muse Clio
The Book of the Muse Clio
Series: Herodotus; Histories Reloaded 2.0 - Book 1 of 9
(A5 Format - 451 Pages - Available in English, Spanish and Italian)
This new book, an update and modernization of the celebrated nine Histories written by the great Greek master Herodotus of Halicarnassus in the fifth century BC, ranges from the abduction of the princesses Io of Argos, Europa of Tyre and Medea of Georgia, to the elopement of Queen Helen of Sparta with the Trojan prince Paris, the latter fact that will cause the terrible Trojan War.
We will then go through the bizarre conquest of power, in the kingdom of Lydia, by a semi-unknown soldier named Gyges who, with the complicity of his lover Queen Nyssia, will stab to death in bed the legitimate king Candaules, (a sexual depraved man of antiquity who liked to show his naked wife to other men). then keeping the entire kingdom and the wife of the deceased, until the victory of the Persian king Cyrus II the Great over the multimillionaire king Croesus of Lydia.
We will also see how this same king Cyrus, (whose maternal grandfather, the evil king Astyages of Media, tried to murder when he was only a baby, and who was said to have been suckled and raised by a she-wolf, like the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus), will come to power in Persia and how he will manage to defeat his grandfather in battle, also taking over the whole kingdom of Media.
We will also witness how our king Cyrus will conquer the mythical city of Babylon and all Assyria, (restoring in passing, in the year 539 BC, the freedom of the Jews of Israel who had been captive for sixty years in Babylon), and how finally, not content with having created an immense empire, Cyrus will also try to conquer the semi-unknown and savage Scythian-Masageta people of the Caspian Sea, an attempt this last one that will cost the life of the Persian king who will be defeated, mercilessly beheaded, and his head submerged in a wineskin full of blood by the sovereign of those Massagetae, the warrior queen Tomiris.
The Book of the Muse Euterpe
The Book of the Muse Euterpe
Series: Herodotus; Histories Reloaded 2.0 - Book 2 of 9
(A5 Format - 364 Pages - Available in English, Spanish and Italian)
If you have ever wondered where the vast majority of ancient stories of heroes and battles, kings and queens, pharaohs, gods and devils comes from, as well as the stories of humble slaves who fought to made revolutions, beautiful but treacherous women and horrible sorceresses that you have surely seen a thousand times on the big screen, well, the answer is that they all (or almost all of them) directly comes from the pen (or better said, the feather) of the great Greek historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus and his Nine Books of the History, written two thousand five hundred years ago, in the fifth century BC. The same nine books that now, in the XXI century, I present to you again in a modern fictionalized edition which is spicy, mischievous, politically incorrect, bad spoken and very funny.
Movies such as: the Gods of Egypt and the Mummy, or Troy with Brad Pitt playing Achilles, as well as Odyssey with Armand Assante in the role of Ulysses - Disney's cartoons such as Hercules, Joseph King of Dreams and Aladdin or the mythical movie 300 with Gerard Butler playing the role of the Spartan king Leonidas fighting in the battle of Thermopylae, are just a few small examples of what the great historian of Halicarnassus has left us written by his own handwriting, or has served as inspiration for other authors who came after him to create their artworks of fiction based on that solid historical basis; including, of course, the humble Italian author who is now writing this short presentation to you.
In this second book of the Saga Herodotus, Histories Reloaded 2.0, we will explore and learn in depth about the Ancient Egypt of the Pharaohs seen with the curious eyes of our mythical traveler-adventurer Herodotus of Halicarnassus, as he saw and lived it 2500 years ago. It will be a truly fascinating journey for you, the reader, a travel full of anecdotes in which youy will discover the secrets of an ancient civilization, the Egyptian, which has given us everything or almost everything we know today...
And in the midst of all this, in my six books you will also find love, betrayal, eroticism, friendship, deceit and savage battles that go hand in hand with cunning alliances, satanic sects, rituals & black magic, cruel murders and much, much more. The times of the Ancient Egypt, Persia & Greece and the epic times of the Medieval Crusades as you had never been told...
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