by Mary Renault · Salvat · tapa dura · ISBN 9788434590816
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«Alexias de Atenas» is the historical novel by Mary Renault, published by Salvat in hardback (396 pages, in Spanish).
The plot follows Alexias, a young Athenian, and recreates Pericles' Athens through his intellectual life and the social norms of coexistence. The action takes place in the run-up to the Peloponnesian War, with the beginning of the end of Greek splendour, and becomes a hymn to friendship and love among young warriors.
This edition belongs to Salvat's «Novela histórica» collection (number 38), with a translation by Elena Rius of the original «The Last of the Wine».
For readers who enjoy period recreation and stories of friendship and love.
Eileen Mary Challans, known by her pen name Mary Renault, was a British writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece.
