Wasp-Waisted Minoans
Miranda Carter: Mary Renault’s Heroes, 13 April 2023
‘The King Must Die’ and ‘The Bull from the Sea’
by Mary Renault.
Everyman, 632 pp., £16.99, October 2022,978 1 84159 409 5 Show More
by Mary Renault.
Everyman, 632 pp., £16.99, October 2022,
“... The Mask of Apollo and The Praise Singer, would focus on performers), and the lectures given by Gilbert Murray, the Regius Professor of Greek, which reignited her passion for the ancient world. As other Oxford students became caught up in the General Strike and embraced Moral Rearmament, Mary decided she was a fifth-century BCE Platonist. It was not the ... ”