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  • Written by Mary Renault
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Published by: Vintage

On Sale: July 10, 2001
Pages: 352 | ISBN: 978-0-375-72680-4
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Fiction - Historical; Fiction
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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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Mary Renault was born in London and educated at Oxford. She then trained for three years as a nurse, and wrote her first published novel, Promise of Love. Her next three novels were written while serving in WWII. After the war, she settled in South Africa and traveled considerably in Africa and Greece. It was at this time that she began writing her brilliant historical reconstructions of ancient Greece, including The King Must Die, The Last of the Wine, and The Persian Boy. She died in Cape Town in 1983.
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“Excellent.... Mary Renault breathe[s] life and light into the faces of heroic personages.”–The New York Times Book Review

  • The Bull From the Sea by Mary Renault
  • July 10, 2001
  • Fiction - Historical; Fiction
  • Vintage
  • $15.95
  • 9780375726804

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