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My best summer reading: King must die
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Theseus, king of Athens
, but this I liked it more. It has also been the first reading I have enjoyed in e-book because the novel is so good that you resign yourself to the discomforts of digital book (the worst is not being able to turn the pages, having to give the little button and wait ... at least mine is of the cheapie). And I say "I enjoyed" because before I had to read another novel, Magdala manuscripts Barbara Wood, I do not recommend to anyone. Much promise, but little please and an end of do you take the typical tantrum "as soon roll for this ...". back to Mary Renault, The King Must Die
account of the early life of Theseus, his life with his mother, a priestess of the Goddess, and his grandfather Pittheus Troezen king. Before their discovery that is not the son of Poseidon, as he thought, but a mortal Aegeus, king of Athens, Theseus decides to travel to meet his father. On his journey, was arrested in Eleusis and elected King of the year by Queen Persephone, who must marry by defeating her current husband in a melee, as required by the matriarchal tradition. Theseus feels a prisoner of Persephone and a trick gets to march to Athens, meet Aegean and save the poisoning of Medea. Return to Eleusis convincing before his soldiers to overthrow the Goddess tradition of requiring the annual death of the king and the queen's supremacy. Later leave voluntarily to Crete as a slave jumper bulls to be sacrificed with other young people of Athens and there Asterion defeat, the illegitimate son of Pasiphae and a bull Springer, who made himself the full power of the island, taking advantage of the disease and isolation of King Minos (has leprosy). But Adriana, supreme priestess, representing the Goddess, who hates his brother Asterion deeply falls in love with Theseus and asks for help ... I'm not counting , if anyone wants to read ... The novel has a thrilling plot, no matter if you know the myth, Renault makes a very personal interpretation, becoming a totally believable and human fiction what is known as mythical adventure tinged with fantasy. The result is a realistic novel, but filled with elements magical. The domain of prose and point of view is overwhelming (he writes in first person, from the ego of Theseus), highlight the treatment of the conflict between the old order and the new patriarchal matriarchal, which always wants Theseus intermediate solutions (remember that his mother is a priestess and has brought respect to the Mother Goddess and the time is devoted to the sun gods Poseidon and Apollo). The Goddess and probably loses the treatment given to the matriarchal traditions is not utopian, as we have accustomed the literature about it, but it must be to maintain consistency with the character, which is a solar hero, ultimately After all, as the myth relates, is a piece in the transition from archaic to classical, with all the consequences that historically and culturally involved.
In the second part, dead Aegeus, Theseus unifying laws implemented in the territories of Athens, becomes hardened ruler and conqueror copy. Meet Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons and falls in love with her, take her to Athens, but she never agreed to marry him, despite him with an heir. Theseus married, however, Phaedra, the queen of Crete, for political reasons ... The fate that the gods have decreed for pummeling him with cruelty.
By the way, I just found that is published recently by Edhasa in one volume under the title The King Must Die and The Bull from the sea.
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