- Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Theseus, Theseus (Greek mythology)
The Bull from the Sea reconstructs the legend of Theseus, the valiant youth who slew the Minotaur, became king, and brought prosperity to Attica. Chief among his heroic exploits is the seduction of Hippolyta, the Queen of the Amazons, who irrevocably brought about both his greatest joy and his tragic destiny.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and epic.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Mary Renault
- First published
- 1962
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- New English Library, The Reprint Society, Book of The Month Club
- Editions
- 64
- Language
- English, Spanish, German, heb
- ISBN
- 9781558000933
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“It was dolphin weather, when I sailed into Piraeus with my comrades of the Cretan bull ring.”
**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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