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8vo. 269 + [1] pp. + [1] pp. Select Bibliography. Bound in quarter ivory paper over red boards, in pictorial dust wrapper, with some sunning and edge wear, including chips at head and tail of spine. Boards have sunned spine and page edges a little foxing; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by double page map. Decorated by publisher's device. In this sequel to the author's 1958 historical novel, The King Must Die, Theseus has left Crete and returned to Athens, where he becomes King, conquering Hippolyta, leader of the Amazons, with whom he is in love. Mary Renault, the pen name of Eileen Mary Challans (1905-83) was best known for her series of novels set in ancient Greece and the Macedonian empire (the Alexander Trilogy). This is a 1963 Reprint Society edition, issued by arrangement with Longmans, who published the first edition in 1962.