The King Must Die

Author: Mary Renault
Publisher: Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
Condition: Used
Pages: 352
Published: 1988

Renault’s vivid retelling of the Theseus myth follows his journey from Troizen to Crete’s bull-rings and onward to Athens grounded in plausible Bronze Age detail and written like high-energy historical fiction. A classic of myth-to-history storytelling.