![]() ![]() However, the father also warns the son not to become involved with women as he is much too young. The father imparts to the son the traits he should seek in a lover – qualities like honour, loyalty and courage. ![]() The novel suggests that young male Athenians were treated almost like modern debutantes and wooed by older men seeking to be their lovers in fact, in a memorable passage, Alexias' father, Myron, himself a former beauty and champion athlete, writes to his son before leaving Athens for the Sicilian Expedition. The novel is narrated by Alexias, a noble Athenian youth, who becomes a noted beauty in the city and a champion runner. The book is a portrait of Athens at the close of the Golden Age and the end of the Peloponnesian War with Sparta, and includes Socrates as a character. It was a bestseller within the gay community. The novel was published in 1956 and is the second of her works to feature male homosexuality as a major theme. The Last of the Wine is Mary Renault's first novel set in ancient Greece, the setting that would become her most important arena. ![]()
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