Der Läufer und sein Held
A Greece, Glbt, Historical book. Men are not born equal in themselves, so I think it beneath a man to postulate that they...
Eine Liebe in Attika. Farbig, grausam und anregend ist das Leben im klassischen Athen zur Zeit der Spartanerkriege - junge Männer messen ihre Leistungen auf der Rennbahn und im Ring, schulen sich im Gespräch mit dem umstrittenen Sokrates, kämpfen im Bann des glanzvoll-egozentrischen Alkibiades. Alexias ist sechzehn Jahre alt, als er dem funfundzwanzigjährigen Lysis näherkommt. Die Liebe und Freundschaft der beiden bewährt sich auch zu Zeiten der Belagerung und Hungersnot und schließlich auf dem Schlachtfeld...
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Nothing will change, Alexias. No, that is false; there is change whenever there is life, and already we are not the two who met in Taureas' palaestra. But what kind of fool would plant an apple-slip, to cut it down at the season when the fruit is setting? Flowers you can get every year, but only with time the tree that shades your doorway and grows into the house with each year's sun and rain. Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine // Men are not born equal in themselves, so I think it beneath a man to postulate that they are. If I thought myself as good as Sokrates I should be a fool; and if, not really believing it, I asked you to make me happy by assuring me of it, you would rightly despise me. So why should I insult my fellow-citizens by treating them as fools and cowards? A man who thinks himself as good as everyone else will be at no pains to grow better. On the other hand, I might think myself as good as Sokrates, and even persuade other fools to agree with me; but under a... Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces. Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine //
The best evocation of the ancient world I've ever read--or at least a small part of the ancient world for a particular 25 years. The story is told by Alexias, who grows from a small boy in Athens to a very mature and experienced man of about 30, who at the close of the book is about to see his well-loved Socrates put to death. As far... The Last of the WineBy Mary RenaultThis novel by Mary Renault is one of those stories that make you wonder whether she didnt somehow actually live in Greece of the fifth century B. C., because she makes that time come so alive to the reader. The story revolves around Alexias, a noble Athenian youth growing into adulthood during the... This books relates the story of the Peloponesian wars and the decline of Athens from the perspective of a young boy growing into a man. This in itself held my attention, but I found it even more compelling because of the historically relevent same-sex relationship between the protagonist and his best friend and lover. It was an eye-opening...
