Enjoy! I believe it to have been my introduction to Mary Renault. Parts of it I argue with a lot more now, and parts of it I can side-eye historically in ways for which I had no information in elementary or middle school, but parts of it are still intensely important to me. If nothing else, it is good at the alienness of the past, and deep time, and the numinous, which if you are going to dispense with in a retelling of Greek myth, then like Sarah Kane you had better have a good reason.
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Enjoy! I believe it to have been my introduction to Mary Renault. Parts of it I argue with a lot more now, and parts of it I can side-eye historically in ways for which I had no information in elementary or middle school, but parts of it are still intensely important to me. If nothing else, it is good at the alienness of the past, and deep time, and the numinous, which if you are going to dispense with in a retelling of Greek myth, then like Sarah Kane you had better have a good reason.