"How to Tell That You Are In A Mary Renault Novel"

[minoanmiss]

This was too good not to share, and besides October is a good month for raising the dead.

https://www.thechatner.com/p/how-to-tell-if-you-are-in-a-mary-renault-novel

"Your hair is tousled, your will is iron, your shoulder is bronzed, and your name has a K in it. "

Comments

[greerwatson]

Very true. (Well, most of it.)

"You have gray eyes because you are a good person."

The colour-coding of eyes is not inconsistent with other books I read once-upon-a-time. Eye-colour as a cue to character. Brown eyes are always warm, black eyes snap, and grey eyes are honest. Very odd—though much appreciated, speaking as someone with grey eyes.

[kizzykat]

Actually, I think the real Alexander's eyes weren't blue but were brown (Plutarch says melting) and looked like Richard Hammond's (from Top Gear) about 15 years ago.

[greerwatson]

I'm not surprised. Renault clearly did research; but her books were historical novels, after all.

[minoanmiss]

I am picturing The Divine Alexander with Big Brown Puppydog Eyes and I may have burst something giggling.

[kizzykat]

Thanks for that - though he left out the red/copper hair (Alexander, Hephaestion, Laurie) :)