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Cette saga épique insuffle vie aux mythes antiques avec un réalisme et une profondeur psychologique remarquables. Elle retrace le parcours d'un héros légendaire, de sa jeunesse incertaine à ses actes les plus célébrés. La série mêle avec brio des cadres historiques à des éléments fantastiques, explorant l'humanité cachée derrière la figure mythique. C'est un récit captivant de courage, d'intrigue et de quête d'identité dans un monde de dieux et de mortels.

The Bull from the Sea
The King Must Die

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    The Bull from the Sea

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    "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.

    The Bull from the Sea

  • The King Must Die

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    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’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. The story follows Theseus’s adventures from Troizen to Eleusis, where the death in the book’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.

    The King Must Die
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