Мері Рено

«Цар має померти» — роман британської письменниці Мері Рено, написаний 1958 року. Дія твору розгортається на теренах мікенської доби в Тройзені, Елевсині, Афінах, у Кноссі на Криті та острові Наксос. «Цар має померти» — перший роман дилогії «Тесей», в якому життя героя від ранніх років до повернення з Криту …

Маска Аполлона — роман британської письменниці Мері Рено, написаний 1966 року. Дія твору розгортається у Стародавній Греції, переважно Афінах та Сіракузах, невдовзі після завершення Пелопоннеської …

The Praise Singer is a historical novel by Mary Renault first published in 1978. Its narrator and main character is the real-life lyric poet Simonides of Keos, whose life spanned the transition from an oral to a written culture in Ancient Greece. Renault's fiction argues that this transition was in part responsible …

The Persian Boy is a 1972 historical novel written by Mary Renault and narrated by Bagoas, a young Persian from an aristocratic family who is captured by his father's enemies, castrated, and sold as a slave to the king Darius III, who makes him his favorite. Eventually he becomes the lover and most faithful servant of …

The Nature of Alexander is the only nonfiction work by novelist Mary Renault.

The Last of the Wine is Mary Renault's first novel set in ancient Greece, the setting that would become her most important arena. The novel was published in 1956 and is the second of her works to feature male homosexuality as a major theme. It was a bestseller within the gay community. The book is a portrait of Athens …

The Charioteer is a 1953 war novel by Mary Renault. It was first published in the United States in 1959. The Charioteer is significant because it features a prominent gay theme at an early date and quickly became a bestseller within the gay community.

The Bull from the Sea is the sequel to Mary Renault's The King Must Die. It continues the story of the mythological hero Theseus after his return from Crete.