Mary Renault

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

La maschera di Apollo è un romanzo storico scritto da Mary Renault. È ambientato nell'antica Grecia subito dopo la guerra del Peloponneso. La storia si occupa del mondo greco raccontando di intrighi politici e le attività teatrali nel Mediterraneo del tempo. Il narratore, Nikeratos, è un personaggio di fantasia, ma vi …

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.