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The Praise Singer: Mary Renault

The Praise Singer: Mary Renault

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This is the story of Simonides who lived in 6th century Greece - a time of tyrants, the Persian wars and a great flowering of the arts. As a boy, Simonides followed a sign from Apollo and finds his teacher, the bard Kleobis. He accompanies him to Samos where he carries out his apprenticeship. After Kleobis' death he goes to the court of the Pisistratids in Athens under the patronage of Hipparchos, who gathers to him a glittering group of artists of all kinds. The Pisistratids had come to power as the peoples' friends and they seem so almost to the end, when Hipparchos' folly precipitates his murder by Harmodios and Aristogeitron and the court's eventual fall from power. Simonides survives the upheaval and retires to Sicily, where he looks back over his long and eventful life.

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Book Club edition; hardback; dust jacket has wear and chipping; tightly bound and very clean inside, Modern Literature
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