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The Mask of Apollo
A Virago Modern Classic
Taschenbuch von Mary Renault
Sprache: Englisch

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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' Hilary Mantel

Nikeratos is a celebrated tragic actor, a devotee of Plato, and a friend of Dion of Syracuse. Throughout all his travels, he always takes with him a mask of Apollo, a relic of the Greek theatre's golden age. At first it is his amulet, but the mask gradually becomes his conscience, and he refers to it in all his gravest decisions. His relationship with Dion and Plato gives Nikeratos rare proximity to the Greek political stage at a moment when ambitions are about to collide. In Syracuse, the young tyrant Dionysios the Younger rules, but Dion is determined to bring democracy and strength to the city. In an effort to curb Dionysios's excesses, Dion has Plato pose as a tutor-only to learn that the corrupt youth won't be so easily contained.

'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' Hilary Mantel

Nikeratos is a celebrated tragic actor, a devotee of Plato, and a friend of Dion of Syracuse. Throughout all his travels, he always takes with him a mask of Apollo, a relic of the Greek theatre's golden age. At first it is his amulet, but the mask gradually becomes his conscience, and he refers to it in all his gravest decisions. His relationship with Dion and Plato gives Nikeratos rare proximity to the Greek political stage at a moment when ambitions are about to collide. In Syracuse, the young tyrant Dionysios the Younger rules, but Dion is determined to bring democracy and strength to the city. In an effort to curb Dionysios's excesses, Dion has Plato pose as a tutor-only to learn that the corrupt youth won't be so easily contained.

Über den Autor
Mary Renault (1905-1983) was born in London and educated at St Hughs, Oxford. She trained as a nurse at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary, where she met her lifelong partner, Julie Mullard. Her first novel, Purposes of Love, was published in1937. In 1948, after North Face won a MGM prize worth [...], she and Mullard emigrated to South Africa. There, Renault was able to write forthrightly about homosexual relationships for the first time - in her masterpiece, The Charioteer (1953), and then in her first historical novel, The Last of the Wine (1956). Renault's vivid novels set in the ancient world brought her worldwide fame. In 2010 Fire From Heaven was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 416
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781844089567
ISBN-10: 1844089568
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Renault, Mary
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Maße: 198 x 126 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Mary Renault
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.08.2015
Gewicht: 0,317 kg
preigu-id: 104738895
Über den Autor
Mary Renault (1905-1983) was born in London and educated at St Hughs, Oxford. She trained as a nurse at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary, where she met her lifelong partner, Julie Mullard. Her first novel, Purposes of Love, was published in1937. In 1948, after North Face won a MGM prize worth [...], she and Mullard emigrated to South Africa. There, Renault was able to write forthrightly about homosexual relationships for the first time - in her masterpiece, The Charioteer (1953), and then in her first historical novel, The Last of the Wine (1956). Renault's vivid novels set in the ancient world brought her worldwide fame. In 2010 Fire From Heaven was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 416
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781844089567
ISBN-10: 1844089568
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Renault, Mary
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Maße: 198 x 126 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Mary Renault
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.08.2015
Gewicht: 0,317 kg
preigu-id: 104738895
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