The Last Of The Wine
  • Published: 15 July 2001
  • ISBN: 9780375726811
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $29.99

The Last Of The Wine

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In The Last of the Wine, two young Athenians, Alexias and Lysis, compete in the palaestra, journey to the Olympic games, fight in the wars against Sparta, and study under Socrates. As their relationship develops, Renault expertly conveys Greek culture, showing the impact of this supreme philosopher whose influence spans epochs.
  • Published: 15 July 2001
  • ISBN: 9780375726811
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Mary Renault

Mary Renault was educated at Clifton High School, Bristol and St Hugh's College, Oxford. Having completed nursing training in 1937, she then wrote her first novel Promise of Love. Her next three novels were written during off-time duty whilst serving in the war. In 1948 she went to live in South Africa but travelled widely. It was her trip to Greece and her visits to Corinth, Samos, Crete, Delos, Aegina and other islands, as well as to Athens, Sounion and Marathon, that resulted in her brilliant historical reconstructions of Ancient Greece. Mary Renault died in 1983.

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