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Mary Renault: The King Must Die

Mary Renault: The King Must Die

USA 1988, 388 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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In myth, Theseus was the slayer of the man-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's Theseus is an utterly lifelike figure - a king of immense charisma, whose boundless strivings flow from strength and weakness - but also one steered by implacable prophecy. Renault starts with Theseus's early years, showing how the mystery of his father's identity and his small stature breed the insecurities that spur his youthful hijinx. As he moves on to Eleusis, Athens, and Crete, his playfulness and fondness of pranks matures into the courage to attempt singular heroic feats, the gallantry and leadership he was known for on the battlefield, and the bold-hearted ingenuity he showed in navigating the labyrinth and slaying of the Minotaur. Renault casts Theseus in a surprisingly original pose - she teases the flawed human out of the bronze age hero, and draws the plausible out of the fantastic.
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