The Mask of Apollo
by:
Mary Renault (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780450010279 (0450010279)
Publish date: 1968
Publisher: New English Library
Pages no: 285
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Greece,
Glbt,
Gay,
Mythology
My introduction to Mary Renault was The King Must Die, the first of two novels about Theseus--it was actually assigned reading in high school. What impressed me so much there was how she took a figure out of myth and grounded him historically. After that I quickly gobbled up all of Renault's works o...
Rating: 5.5/5 (It was that brilliant!) Summary: Nikeratos (Niko), a 4th century B.C. Greek tragic actor finds himself in a middle of a political drama involving among others the famous Plato and Dion. He carries with him a mask of Apollo, an old relic from the past as he travels performing (and ca...
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