- Fiction, Lesbian authors, Men, Minotaur (Greek mythology)
Historical fiction. Theseus, a prince of ancient Athens, is taken as a slave to the island of Crete, where he's condemned to certain death as a bull dancer. But he abducts the Princess Ariadne & makes a daring escape.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Mary Renault
- First published
- 1952
- Pages
- 371
- Publisher
- New American Library of Canada Limited, Reprint Society, Random House Inc
- Editions
- 92
- Language
- German, heb, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780582101371
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“The Citadel of Troizen, where the Palace stands, was built by giants before anyone remembers.”
**Eileen Mary Challans** (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983), known by her pen name *Mary Renault* (/ˈrɛnoʊlt/), was an English writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece. Born in Forest Gate in 1905, she attended St Hugh's College, Oxford, from 1924 until 1928. After graduating from St Hugh's with a Third Class in English, she worked as a nurse and began writing her first novels, which were contemporary romances. In 1948, she moved to South Africa with her partner Julie Mullard, where she spent the rest of her life. Living in South Africa allowed her to write about openly gay characters without fearing the censorship and homophobia of England. She devoted herself to
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