The Double Tongue (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: William Golding
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The first century
- Setting: Greece
- Principal Characters: Arieka, Ionides Peisistratides, Demetrios, Leptides, Julius Caesar, Crates of Corinth, Lucius Galba, Perseus
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Girls, Mythology or myths, Politics, Marriage, Religion, Greek or Roman times, Greece or Greek people, Oracles
- Locales: Greece
For The Double Tongue, which was published two years after his death, Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding looked almost 2,000 years into the past to tell a thoughtful story of one of the Pythias, or women responsible for relaying the answers of Apollo’s oracle at the Greek city of Delphi. William Golding’s fame rests with his haunting novel, Lord of the Flies (1954), in which a group of stranded schoolboys establishes a brutal regime on the South Sea island where they survive without any adults. In The Double Tongue, Golding creates for the first...
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