Mary Renault
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Mary Renault (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983) born Mary Challans, was an English writer best known for her historical novels set in Ancient Greece. In addition to vivid fictional portrayals of Theseus, Socrates, Plato and Alexander the Great, she wrote a non-fiction biography of Alexander.
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Contemporary fiction
- Purposes of Love (US title: Promise of Love) (1939)
- Kind Are Her Answers (1940)
- The Friendly Young Ladies (US title: The Middle Mist) (1943)
- Return to Night (1947)
- The North Face (1948)
- The Charioteer (1953)
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Historical novels
- The Last of the Wine (1956) — set in Athens during the Peloponnesian War; the narrator is a student of Socrates
- The King Must Die (1958) — the mythical Theseus up to his father's death
- The Bull from the Sea (1962) — the remainder of Theseus' life
- The Mask of Apollo (1966) — an actor at the time of Plato and Dionysius the Younger (brief appearance by Alexander near the end of the book)
- Fire from Heaven (1969) — Alexander the Great from the age of four up to his father's death
- The Persian Boy (1972) — from Bagoas's perspective; Alexander the Great after the conquest of Persia
- The Praise Singer (1978) — the poet Simonides of Ceos
- Funeral Games (1981) — Alexander's successors
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Nonfiction
- The Nature of Alexander (1975) — a biography of Alexander the Great
- Lion in the Gateway: The Heroic Battles of the Greeks and Persians at Marathon, Salamis, and Thermopylae (1964) — about the Persian Wars
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Radio
The King Must Die and The Bull From the Sea have been adapted as an 11-part BBC Radio 4 serial entitled The King Must Die.
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