Mary Renault

11 books on BookJumpr, mentioned 5 times in other books.

Books by Mary Renault

• Fire from Heaven (1969): mentions 3 books
• Funeral Games (1981): mentions 1 book
• The Bull from the Sea (1962)
• The Charioteer (1953): mentions 6 books, mentioned in 1 book
• The King Must Die (1958)
• The Last of the Wine (1956): mentions 2 books, mentioned in 2 books
• The Mask of Apollo (1966): mentions 9 books
• The Nature of Alexander (1975): mentions 4 books
• The Persian Boy (1972): mentions 2 books, mentioned in 1 book
• The Praise Singer (1978)
• Return to Night: mentioned in 1 book

Quotes from Mary Renault's books, and about them

• Fire from Heaven on Iliad: “Phoinix had given Achilles his own Iliad, a secret from Timanthes... At the top sat the leather scroll-case of the Iliad.”
• Fire from Heaven on The Education of Cyrus (Cyropaedia): “They were reading Xenophon's The Upbringing of Kyros, which, next to Homer, was just then Alexander's favourite book.”
• Fire from Heaven on Heracles (The Madness of Heracles): “The play had been The Madness of Herakles, Hephaistion wondered, after, how he could have missed the omen.”
• Funeral Games on The Odyssey: “Reaching the Odyssey, he came upon Odysseus' visit to the land of shades... 'Achilleus, no man before has been more blessed than you...' So I spoke, and he in turn said to me in answer...”
• The Charioteer on Phaedrus: “"The spine said The Phaedrus of Plato." ... Lanyon gives Laurie the book at school and Laurie carries and rereads it through his years in the war.”
• The Charioteer on Hamlet: “"Hamlet had been the set play for School Certificate...Laurie had played Laertes"; later Laurie and Lanyon fence with the foil "used in Hamlet."”
• The Charioteer on Julius Caesar: “Laurie writes a school essay on Julius Caesar, and later quotes Antony's line over Caesar's body ("Down Hamlet, up Antony. Over thy wounds now do I prophesy").”
• The Charioteer on The Country of the Blind: “It was more like—have you read a story by Wells called The Country of the Blind?”
• The Charioteer on Brave New World: “I was just carrying out an experiment in sleep-suggestion. They do it in Brave New World, with tiny little radios under the pillows.”
• The Charioteer on The Oxford Book of French Verse: “"The Oxford Book of French Verse was in her hand, and she was carefully shaking out the pages" — Aunt Olive sorting Laurie's mother's books.”

Authors Mary Renault's books mention

• Homer (6): Fire from Heaven mentions Iliad; Funeral Games mentions The Odyssey; The Mask of Apollo mentions Iliad, The Odyssey; The Nature of Alexander mentions Iliad; The Persian Boy mentions Iliad
• Euripides (4): Fire from Heaven mentions Heracles (The Madness of Heracles); The Last of the Wine mentions The Bacchae; The Mask of Apollo mentions The Bacchae, The Trojan Women
• William Shakespeare (4): The Charioteer mentions Hamlet, Julius Caesar; The Nature of Alexander mentions Julius Caesar, Henry V
• Aeschylus (3): The Mask of Apollo mentions The Persians, The Libation Bearers; The Persian Boy mentions The Myrmidons
• Plato (3): The Charioteer mentions Phaedrus; The Mask of Apollo mentions The Republic, Symposium
• Aristophanes (2): The Last of the Wine mentions The Clouds; The Mask of Apollo mentions The Clouds
• Xenophon (2): Fire from Heaven mentions The Education of Cyrus (Cyropaedia); The Nature of Alexander mentions Cyropaedia
• Aldous Huxley (1): The Charioteer mentions Brave New World
• H. G. Wells (1): The Charioteer mentions The Country of the Blind
• John Lucas (1): The Charioteer mentions The Oxford Book of French Verse

Authors who mention Mary Renault

• Jo Walton (5): Among Others mentions The Charioteer, The Last of the Wine, The Persian Boy, Return to Night; The Just City mentions The Last of the Wine