Funeral Games, Renault, Mary

Автор: Renault, Mary
Название: The Praise Singer
ISBN: 0375714200 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375714207
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1471.00 р.
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Описание: In the story of the great lyric poet Simonides, Mary Renault brings alive a time in Greece when tyrants kept an unsteady rule and poetry, music, and royal patronage combined to produce a flowering of the arts.

Born into a stern farming family on the island of Keos, Simonides escapes his harsh childhood through a lucky apprenticeship with a renowned Ionian singer. As they travel through 5th century B.C. Greece, Simonides learns not only how to play the kithara and compose poetry, but also how to navigate the shifting alliances surrounding his rich patrons. He is witness to the Persian invasion of Ionia, to the decadent reign of the Samian pirate king Polykrates, and to the fall of the Pisistratids in the Athenian court. Along the way, he encounters artists, statesmen, athletes, thinkers, and lovers, including the likes of Pythagoras and Aischylos. Using the singer's unique perspective, Renault combines her vibrant imagination and her formidable knowledge of history to establish a sweeping, resilient vision of a golden century.

Автор: Renault, Mary
Название: The Nature of Alexander
ISBN: 039473825X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780394738253
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1375.00 р.
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Описание: The acclaimed biography of Alexander the Great by Mary Renault, the author of Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy, two best-selling novels about Alexander.

Автор: Renault Mary
Название: Fire from Heaven
ISBN: 0375726829 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375726828
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 1559.00 р.
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Описание: Alexander's beauty, strength, and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their son's loyalty, teaching Alexander politics and vengeance from the cradle. His love for the youth Hephaistion taught him trust, while Aristotle's tutoring provoked his mind and Homer's Iliad fueled his aspirations. Killing his first man in battle at the age of twelve, he became regent at sixteen and commander of Macedon's cavalry at eighteen, so that by the time his father was murdered, Alexander's skills had grown to match his fiery ambition.

Автор: Renault Mary
Название: The Last of the Wine
ISBN: 0375726810 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375726811
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1563.00 р.
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