When the King Horse is sacrificed to Poseidon, as is their custom, the seven-year-old Theseus is heartbroken and comforted by his grandfather. His only childhood friend is the King Horse, the alpha male of the local horses. He feels sure that he will grow to a match his peers and, as for his unknown father, his affinity for Poseidon convinces him that the great god is his real father. Despite his challenges, he feels certain that fate has something great in store for him. The fact that his maternal grandfather is the King of Troizen is no protection and the boy keeps mostly to himself. In addition, she has delivered a novel full of drama and as gripping as a thriller.Īs a boy, growing up in Troizen, in bronze age Greece, Theseus is bullied by the other boys for his small size and lack of a father. Renault’s version stays true to the spirit and the key events from the original while incorporating what modern geological and archaeological discoveries can add to it. The King Must Die is Mary Renault’s retelling of one of the most enduring stories from antiquity – the legend of Theseus the boy who discovers his father’s sword buried under a rock and goes on a perilous journey to find his father.
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