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| Title | : | The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great #2) |
| Author | : | Mary Renault |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 432 pages |
| Published | : | February 12th 1988 by Vintage (first published 1972) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. LGBT. Gay. Classics. Romance. M M Romance |
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Paperback | Pages: 432 pages Rating: 4.18 | 7563 Users | 525 Reviews
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“It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior.”–The Atlantic MonthlyThe Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander’s life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but found freedom with Alexander after the Macedon army conquered his homeland. Their relationship sustains Alexander as he weathers assassination plots, the demands of two foreign wives, a sometimes-mutinous army, and his own ferocious temper. After Alexander’s mysterious death, we are left wondering if this Persian boy understood the great warrior and his ambitions better than anyone.
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| Original Title: | The Persian Boy |
| ISBN: | 0394751019 (ISBN13: 9780394751016) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Alexander the Great #2 |
| Characters: | Alexander the Great, Hephaestion, Roxana of Bactria, Darius III, Bagoas |
| Setting: | Persia Persian Empire |
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Ratings: 4.18 From 7563 Users | 525 ReviewsCrit Of Books The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great #2)
This book is a marvel, the first part especially so. I cant understand how but it manages to combine the most appalling crimes imaginable (young Bagoas is enslaved, castrated, pimped out, and gradually turned into the kings sex toy) with a feeling of comfort and tradition. You feel Bagoas love for Persia even as he passes through the worst bits of it. By the time Darius falls you feel regret for the ruin of this once-promising king and the ending of a mighty empire. Again, this is the man whosIt is possible - though somewhat distressing - that my love affair with Mary Renault is beginning to draw to a close. It began about eight years ago, when I first read The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea surrounding a passionate, pilgrimage-like trip to Greece. I was amazed that Renault possessed the same respect, reverence even for the Greeks and the Greek culture that I did. The care and seriousness with which she endowed her historical novels impressed me - here, I thought, is another
The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great #1), Mary RenaultThe Persian Boy is a 1972 historical novel written by Mary Renault and narrated by Bagoas, a young Persian from an aristocratic family who is captured by his father's enemies, castrated, and sold as a slave to the king Darius III, who makes him his favorite. Eventually he becomes the lover and most faithful servant of Alexander the Great, who overthrew Darius and captured the Persian Empire. Bagoas' narration provides both a Persian view of
This is the second of Mary Renault's Alexander trilogy. The first, Fire from Heaven, deals with his childhood until the death of the king of Macedon, his father. The third deals with events following upon his death. The Persian Boy details his conquests from the perspective of one of his lovers, a eunuch based on an actual historical personage.It was at about this time, while in the midst of a Mary Renault binge, that I came upon one of her contemporary novels at a bookstore near Columbia
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Overall a lovely read. However, and this is where I will sound like a petulant child, this read a bit like Alexander/Hephaistion and Alexander/Bagoas fanfic in which Hephaistion could just as well not have been there, but the pairing was put in the header to justify the fic's posting on an Alexander/Hephaistion community. I LOVE Hephaistion and I love him even more with Alexander, but I get the feeling that Mary Renault didn't like him very much and instead drew Bagoas into the light and went
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