Mary Renault, Iran, and the Alexander Trilogy

Perspectives: Iran Past and Present

Mary Renault, Iran, and the Alexander Trilogy

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Mary Renault is lauded as a LGBT authoress, but this detracts from her brilliance as a historian of ancient Greece and Iran. She masterfully weaves history, geography, and Greek literature with fiction to depict the life of Alexander the Great. Her “Persian Boy” was my introduction to Iran.