Character guide · 7 books · 1956 to 1981

Mary Renault

Historical fiction Literary and generalAncient world Literary fiction

Mary Renault wrote vivid novels of ancient Greece. Her Alexander trilogy follows Alexander the Great from boyhood, then through the eyes of the Persian eunuch Bagoas; her Theseus novels retell the myth as history.

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