Title: "The Unmanly Ruler": Bagoas, Alexander's Eunuch Lover, Mary Renault's The Persian Boy, and Alexander Reception
Creator: Baynham, Elizabeth; Ryan, Terry
Relation: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 14
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004359932_026
Publisher: Brill
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2018
Description: Lest anyone should suppose I am a son of nobody, sold off by some peasant father in a drought year, I may say our line is an old one, although it ends with me. My father was Artembares, son of Araxis, of the Pasargadai of Kyros' old royal tribe. So speaks Bagoas, the protagonist of Mary Renault's The Persian Boy, the second novel in her Alexander trilogy first published in 1972, which portrays Alexander and his years of conquest through the gaze of his Persian lover, the eunuch Bagoas. Although the novel is over 40 years old, it remains popular and well regarded to this day.
Subject: Alexander the Great; The Persian Boy; Mary Renault; Alexander reception
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1446249
Identifier: uon:42807
Identifier: ISBN:9789004285071
Language: eng

"The Unmanly Ruler": Bagoas, Alexander's Eunuch Lover, Mary Renault's The Persian Boy, and Alexander Reception