The praise singer: a novel

✍ Scribed by Mary Renault

• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-us
• Weight: 313 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 148043292X

✦ Synopsis

Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity, she leads us through an alien landscape that moves and delights us.--Hilary Mantel

Simonides of Keos lived during the fifth and sixth centuries BC, a fertile period for the arts, when myths were being acted out and verse had just begun to be written down. In this evocative portrayal of Simonides, the poet is learning to master his craft and secure fickle patrons, and his travels place him at the scene of many central historical events. This fact, along with his friendship with gallivanting, brilliant Anakreon, makes him a perfect guide to the age.

The Praise Singer is faithfully grounded in history, with all the immediacy of Mary Renault's acclaimed novels of the ancient world,...