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      The Mask of Apollo

      by Mary Renault
      Published
      Jan 1966
      Main Genre
      Historical Romance Hist. Romance
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      376
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      Set in fourth-century B.C. Greece, The Mask of Apollo is narrated by Nikeratos, a tragic actor who takes with him on all his travels a gold mask of Apollo, a relic of the theater's golden age, which is now past. At first his mascot, the mask gradually becomes his conscience, and he refers to it his gravest decisions, when he finds himself at the center of a political crisis in which the philosopher Plato is also involved. Much of the action is set in Syracuse, where Plato's friend Dion is trying to persuade the young tyrant Dionysios the Younger to accept the rule of law. Through Nikeratos' eyes, the reader watches as the clash between the two looses all the pent-up violence in the city.

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      Romance Suspense

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      Historical Historical Romance

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      First Edition Jan 1974 Bantam ISBN13 9780553145533 ISBN10 0553145533
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