The Theseus Duo - Mary Renault
Category: Classic
Narrator: Kris Dyer
Tags: Classic, Historical Fiction, Adults
The King Must Die (1958) Series: Theseus, Book 1 Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins Release date: 03-12-15 Publisher: Audible Studios, 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 Gods decree and claims his inheritance - the throne of Athens, 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 Renaults Theseus is an utterly lifelike figurea king of immense charisma, whose boundless strivings flow from strength and weaknessbut also one steered by implacable prophecy., The story follows Theseuss adventures from Troizen to Eleusis, where the death in the books title is to take place, and from Athens to Crete, where he learns to jump bulls and is named king of the victims. Richly imbued with the spiri
