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The Last of the Wine

Mary Renault · 1956

400 pages

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Alexias comes of age in Athens during the Peloponnesian War. He trains in the palaestra, competes at the Olympic games, fights for his city, and falls in love with Lysis, a young man shaped by Socrates. Their bond is tested by war, politics, and the demands of Athenian society.

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