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?Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity, she leads us through an alien landscape that moves and delights us.? {u2014}Hilary Mantel In myth, Theseus was the slayer of the child-devouring Minotaur in Crete. What the founder-hero might have been in real life is another question, brilliantly explored in The King Must Die. Drawing on modern scholarship and archaeological findings at Knossos, Mary Renault{u2019}s Theseus is an utterly lifelike figure{u2014}a king of immense charisma, whose boundless strivings flow from strength and weakness{u2014}but also one steered by implacable prophecy. The story follows Theseus{u2019}s adventures from Troizen to Eleusis, where the death in the book{u2019}s title is to take place, and from Athens to Crete, where he learns to jump bulls and is named king of the victims. Richly imbued with the spirit of its time, this is a page-turner as well as a daring act of imagination. Renault{u2019}s story of Theseus

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Author

Renault, Mary

Publisher

Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781306617499

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Adventure, Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (1,652 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14