The King Must Die by Mary Renault | 9780394751047 ... (Stephen Moody) Written by Mary Renault, Audiobook narrated by Kris Dyer. What the founder-hero might have been in real life is another question, brilliantly explored in The King Must Die. The epic of Thesus, the boy king of Eleusis, ritually preordained to die after one year of marriage to the sacred queen but who defies God's decree and claims his inheritance - the throne of Athens.
She uses this background to re-tell the Greek myth of Theseus.
I was Middle East correspondent for The Scotsman.
Mary Renault was born in London, where her father was a doctor. We're in Ancient Greece, and a matriarchal society with an earth-based religion is in the process of changing to a patriarchal one that worships sky gods. I was born to die soon; but Olympian Zeus the Thunderer. owes me some honor for it.
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