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List Of Fiction Set In Ancient Greece
There is a body of ancient and modern fiction set in ancient Greece and ancient Greek culture, including Magna Graecia and Hellenistic kingdoms. Titles include: Books Bronze Age and mythistoricals Atlantis * Poul Anderson, ''The Dancer from Atlantis'' (1971) Crete =Daedalus= * Michael Ayrton ** ''The Testament of Daedalus'' (1962) ** ''The Maze Maker'' (1967) * Erick Berry, ''Winged Girl of Knossos'' (1933) * Ernst Schnabel, ''Story for Icarus'' (1958) =Theseus, Ariadne, Circe, Phaedra= * Eleanor Farjeon, ''Ariadne and the Bull'' (1945) * André Gide, ''Theseus'' (1946) * Roger Lancelyn Green, ''Mystery at Mycenae'' (1957) * Madeline Miller, ''Circe (novel), Circe'' (2018) * Steven Pressfield, ''Last of the Amazons'' (2002) * Mary Renault, "Thesead" ** ''The King Must Die'' (1958) ** ''The Bull from the Sea'' (1962) * Tony Robinson & Richard Curtis, ''Theseus: The King Who Killed the Minotaur'' (1988) * Fred Saberhagen, ''Ariadne's Web'' (2000) * Ian Serraillier, ''The Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece () was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and communities. Prior to the Roman period, most of these regions were officially unified only once under the Kingdom of Macedon from 338 to 323 BC. In Western history, the era of classical antiquity was immediately followed by the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine period. Three centuries after the decline of Mycenaean Greece during the Bronze Age collapse, Greek urban poleis began to form in the 8th century BC, ushering in the Archaic period and the colonization of the Mediterranean Basin. This was followed by the age of Classical Greece, from the Greco-Persian Wars to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, and which included the Golden Age of Athens and the Peloponnesian War. The u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Renault
Eileen Mary Challans (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983), known by her pen name Mary Renault ("She always pronounced it 'Ren-olt', though almost everyone would come to speak of her as if she were a French car." ), was a British writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece. Born in Forest Gate in 1905, she attended St Hugh's College, Oxford, from 1924 until 1928. After graduating from St Hugh's with a Third Class in English, she worked as a nurse and began writing her first novels, which were contemporary romances. In 1948, she moved to Durban, South Africa with her partner, Julie Mullard, and later to Cape Town, where she spent the rest of her life. Living in South Africa allowed her to write about openly gay characters without fearing the censorship and homophobia of England. She devoted herself to writing historical fiction in the 1950s, which were also her most successful books. She is best known for her historical fiction today. Renault's works are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lily And The Bull
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Moyra Caldecott
Moyra Caldecott (1 June 1927 – 23 May 2015)Kevan Manwaring"Moyra Caldecott obituary" ''The Guardian'', 8 June 2005. was a British author of historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction and non-fiction. Her works include ''Guardians of the Tall Stones'' and ''The Egyptian Sequence''. She was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and moved to London in 1951. She married Oliver Caldecott and raised three children. She had degrees in English and Philosophy and an M.A. in English Literature. In 2000, she became one of the earliest proponents of commercial e-books when she contracted with Mushroom eBooks to re-publish most of her titles in electronic formats. She had a reputation as a novelist who wrote as vividly about the adventures and experiences to be encountered in the inner realms of the human consciousness as she did about those in the outer physical world. To Moyra, reality was multidimensional. In her later years she suffered from progressive aphasia. She died peacefully on 23 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Miles From Candia
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple ( 3, 4, 5). 5 is the first safe prime and the first good prime. 11 forms the first pair of sexy primes with 5. 5 is the second Fermat prime, of a total of five known Fermat primes. 5 is also the first of three known Wilson primes (5, 13, 563). Geometry A shape with five sides is called a pentagon. The pentagon is the first regular polygon that does not tile the plane with copies of itself. It is the largest face any of the five regular three-dimensional regular Platonic solid can have. A conic is determined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Althea Urn
Althea Urn was the pen name of Consuelo Urisarri Ford ( – November 11, 1969), an American writer. She was married to artist Ellsworth Ford, the son of financier Simeon Ford and Julia Ellsworth Ford, a socialite and author. She is best known for her novels, especially ''The Head of Monsier M.'' (1961, Crown).The Publishers Weekly – Volume 180; Issue 1 – Page 185 Her will established the Lyric Poetry Award. ''Kirkus Reviews'' said of her "(presumably) first novel" ''Five Miles from Candia'' (1959, Holt), "The author has a knack for scenic descriptions and a useful collection of facts about the customs and decor surrounding the life of royalty in ancient Crete The history of Crete goes back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia. The Minoan civilization was the first civilization in Europe. During the Iron Age, Crete developed an Ancient Greece-i ..., but the characters, with their highly predictable emotions and ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Way Of Danger
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Ian Serraillier
Ian Serraillier (24 September 1912 – 28 November 1994) was an English novelist and poet. He retold legends from England, Greece and Rome and was best known for his children's books, especially '' The Silver Sword'' (1956), a wartime adventure story that the BBC adapted for television in 1957 and again in 1971. Early life and education Serraillier, born in London on 24 September 1912, was the eldest of the four children of Lucien Serraillier (1886–1919) and Mary Kirkland Rodger (1883–1940). His father died in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. Serraillier was educated at Brighton College, a public school, and at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He then taught English at Wycliffe College, Gloucestershire in 1936–1939, Dudley Boys Grammar School, Worcestershire, in 1939–1946, and Midhurst Grammar School, West Sussex, in 1946–1961. Pacifism As a Quaker Serraillier was granted conscientious objector status in World War II, and served as an air raid warden during the conflict. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Saberhagen
Fred Thomas Saberhagen (May 18, 1930 – June 29, 2007) was an American science fiction and fantasy author most famous for his ''Berserker'' series of science fiction short stories and novels. Saberhagen also wrote a series of vampire novels in which the famous Dracula is the main protagonist, and a series of post-apocalyptic mytho-magical novels beginning with his popular Empire of the East series and continuing through a long series of ''Swords'' and ''Lost Swords'' novels. Saberhagen died of cancer, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Biography Saberhagen was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Saberhagen served as an enlisted man in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War while he was in his early twenties. Back in civilian life, Saberhagen worked as an electronics technician for the Motorola Corporation from 1958 to 1962, when he was around 30 years old. It was while he was working for Motorola that Saberhagen started writing fiction seriously at the age of about 30. His fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The King Who Killed The Minotaur
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Richard Curtis
Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis (born 8 November 1956) is a British screenwriter, producer and director. One of Britain's most successful comedy screenwriters, he is known for romantic comedy-drama films, including ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' (1994), ''Notting Hill (film), Notting Hill'' (1999), ''Bridget Jones's Diary (film), Bridget Jones's Diary'' (2001), ''Love Actually'' (2003), ''Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason'' (2004), ''About Time (2013 film), About Time'' (2013), ''Yesterday (2019 film), Yesterday'' (2019) and ''That Christmas'' (2024), as well as the war drama film ''War Horse (film), War Horse'' (2011), and for having co-written the sitcoms ''Blackadder'', ''Mr. Bean'' and ''The Vicar of Dibley''. His early career saw him write material for the comedy sketch shows ''Not the Nine O'Clock News'' and ''Spitting Image''. In 2007, Curtis received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. He is the co-founder, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
