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Title: THE BULL FROM THE SEA
By: Mary Renault
Format: Hardback

List price: £46.50


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ISBN 10: 0765807831
ISBN 13: 9780765807830
Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
Pub. date: 31 December, 2001
Edition: Large type / large print edition
Series: Transaction Large Print S.
Pages: 340
Description: This is the story of Theseus, King of Athens. Renault reconstructs ancient Greek politics, giving readers a glimpse of the reign of Theseus, torn between his genius for kingship and his triumphant craving for adventure.
Synopsis: The Bull from the Sea is the story of Theseus, King of Athens, but also Mary Renault's brilliant historical reconstruction of ancient Greek politics. Throughout his reign, Theseus is torn between his genius for kingship and his truant craving for adventure. As Theseus for a dynastic marriage with Phaedra, Pirithoos, the pirate prince, lures him off to explore the unknown Euxine, where he meets and captures the young warrior priestess Hippolyta. She is the love of his life, and that love is the crux of his fate. The bull of Marathon, the battle of the Lapiths and Kentaurs, and the moon-goddess cult of Pontos are merely a portion of the legendary material that Renault weaves into the fabric of great historical fiction. Whether or not these myths have their far-distant origin in actual events, the author's imagination and scholarship have invested them with immediate amd magical reality.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Transaction Publishers
Returns: Returnable
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