Once I saw this forum I simply HAD to register at once. Especially since Marry Renault has only been briefly mentioned. She is an English writer best known for her novels set in Ancient Greece. Many of her books feature male homosexuality as a major theme.
Check out:
The Last of the Wine - Set in Athens after the Peloponnesian War.
The King Must Die - The mythical Theseus up to his father's death
The Bull from the Sea - the remainder of Theseus' life
The Mask of Apollo - an actor at the time of Plato and Dionysis the Younger
Fire from Heaven - Alexander the Great up to his father's death
The Persian Boy - Alexander through the eyes of his lover and servant after the conquest of Persia
Funeral Games - Alexander's successors
The Praise Singer - the poet Simonides of Ceos
I have now purchased a third copy of Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet, as the first one I lent out (never came back) the second one read so many times, it fell apart. For anyone who has never read it, please do!!!!! It is the best historical novel
London - Edward Rutherfurd is also good but not in the same league as "Pillars" and one I read recently comes close
The Historian - Elizabeth (i've forgotten her last name) Its not to bad, the ending lets it down a little but its well written, its not Pillars but its not bad.
Dorothy Dunnett is an excellent read. Her book on Macbeth, King Hereafter is outstanding.
Another one but it might be hard to get is called In a Dark Wood Wandering by Hellas Haasse. It is about Agincourt and the final years of the Hundred Years War.
Yes, the Niccola series was inspired. My favourite was the one set in Trebizond.
what do we define as the best?
most acurate?
funniest?
most prolific?
best battles?
most authentic..(not to be confused with historical accuracy)
most contempary style?
me i love simon scarrows work.
His eagles series is utterly brilliant...the characters are ones you can empathise with, the dialogue is something that would be applicable in any age in any army. and the plots are pacy and gritty...each book gets better and better.
and to prove he can do the more researched book, look to his wellington and napoleon series young bloods and generals)...utter class.
Simon Scarrow is my second fav cause he is very good at writing at military history and the way he writes their battles,military life in the times he writes about and so.
For example I adore his Macro and Cato series. He tells the story about the normal soldiers so well. In Young Bloods he made Napoleon come to life very very good.
Surely someone must have mentioned Mary Renault in the pages in between?
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