In myth, Theseus was the slayer of the child-devouring Minotaur in Crete. What the founder-hero might have been in real life is another question, brilliantly explored in The King Must Die. Drawing on modern scholarship and archaeological findings at Knossos, Mary Renault's Theseus is an utterly lifelike figure -- a king of immense charisma, whose boundless strivings flow from strength and weakness -- but also one steered by implacable prophecy.
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The King Must Die
By Mary Renault
In myth, Theseus was the slayer of the child-devouring Minotaur in Crete. What the founder-hero might have been in real life is another question, brilliantly explored in The King Must Die. Drawing on modern scholarship and archaeological findings at Knossos, Mary Renault's Theseus is an utterly lifelike figure -- a king of immense charisma, whose boundless strivings flow from strength and weakness -- but also one steered by implacable prophecy.
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