The King Must Die
A Fantasy, Classics, Fiction book. May the Mother curse him and all gods below, and...
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...
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May the Mother curse him and all gods below, and may Night's Daughters hunt him down into the ground! And on the hand that sheds his blood let there be a blessing. Mary Renault, The King Must Die // For I had felt too much and reasoned too little, hearing what I was ready to hear, not what had been said. There Mary Renault, The King Must Die // It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting. Mary Renault, The King Must Die //
I love her, I can't help it. I thought it was very clever how all the fantastic elements of the myth got explained to be more realisitc and still make sense. I read this whole thing pretty fast but I really tore through the end to see how Theseus would leave Ariadne (thousand year old myths don't get spoiler alerts) without being a... Mary Renault takes the Greek Legend of Theseus and the Minotaur; combines it with real architectural findings; adds in her own literary skill.. and makes it bigger and better in the telling.My own telling of the Theseus legend would mostl likely cover half a page. Renault has made it a 350 page adventure that is half historical-fiction... The King Must Die by Mary Renault is a re-telling of the Greek myth of Theseus. Renault begins with Theseus early childhood and concludes with his killing of the Minotaur in Crete. Although Renault does an admirable job of fleshing out the historical setting and situating the myth in a realistic, historical context, her story-telling...
