Mary Renault – the [blank] garden (Joel Lynch) By Keos reckoning, Kleobis must always have been an easy master. Buy a cheap copy of The Praise Singer book by Mary Renault. Mary Renault. "In death he was my benefactor.
Her early works, which had a contemporary setting, were only moderately successful.
In the story of the great lyric poet Simonides, Mary Renault brings alive a time in Greece when tyrants kept an unsteady rule and poetry, music, and royal patronage combined to produce a flowering of the arts.
Mary Renault's _The Praise Singer_ is another highly enjoyable visit to the world of ancient Greece. Praise Singing refers to the mostly commissioned work to celebrate the famous deeds of heroes, kings and the like in. A brief comment in response to some reviewers who liked other of Mary Renault's historical novels, but didn't particularly like this one.
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