Mary Renault (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)
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All but two of Mary Renault’s published works are novels. The Lion in the Gateway: Heroic Battles of the Greeks and Persians at Marathon, Salamis, and Thermopylae (1964) is a children’s history of ancient Greek battles. The Nature of Alexander (1975) is a heavily documented biography placing the charismatic leader in the context of his time and customs, a book that also defines the two abiding preoccupations of Alexander’s life and Renault’s art. “Outward striving for honor,” the Greek to philotimo, balances arete,...
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