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The Last Of The Wine

Author: Mary Renault.

The Last Of The Wine

Author: Mary Renault.

$15.95 $2.98
Item #: D12989
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 2001
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780375726811
Growing up just as the Peloponnesian War is drawing to a close, handsome and athletic Alexias is entering Athenian society with high hopes. The adult world he enters is one in which the power and influence of his class have been undermined by the forces of war, and more and more Alexias finds himself drawn to the controversial teachings of Sokrates. Among th... More
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Growing up just as the Peloponnesian War is drawing to a close, handsome and athletic Alexias is entering Athenian society with high hopes. The adult world he enters is one in which the power and influence of his class have been undermined by the forces of war, and more and more Alexias finds himself drawn to the controversial teachings of Sokrates. Among the great thinker's followers, Alexias meets Lysis, and the two youths become inseparable, wrestling together in the palaestra and journeying to the Olympic Games. But in Mary Renault's 1956 novel, the war with Sparta will draw these young men in, and require unimaginable sacrifices.


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