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The Praise Singer by Mary Renault

The Praise Singer

Mary Renault

256 pages first pub 1978 (view editions)

fiction historical challenging informative medium-paced
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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 t...

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