[LMB] Re: OT Mary Renault

[B. Ross Ashley]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:10:57 EDT, CatMtn at aol.com wrote: > In a message 
dated 7/26/2006 4:12:32 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jessybrody at gmail.com 
writes: > Pat Mathews:

>> Me, too. Also THE PRAISE SINGER, for the life of a  wandering
>> bard/poet. Last of the bards, first of the  poets?
>  
>


> M:
> _The King Must Die_ was the first of her books I read, and I'm surprised  
> nobody has mentioned it--it was based on the Theseus myth.
 
> Mary

I loved that and its sequel, _The Bull from the Sea_; they were her first that I picked up, in the public library in Palatka FL in I guess 1959-1960. But the characterisation and plot and so forth are merely very good in those ... I read them about the same time as my first Robert Graves, which was _Hercules my Shipmate_, about the voyage of the Argonauts, and I thought Graves was the stronger at that point. She surpassed him with _Fire from Heaven_, of course.



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