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A 5 page essay on this classic historical novel of the Peloponnesian War. It argues that the lessons of Renault's depiction of love and war in Peloponnesian times apply equally well to our own century. No additional sources cited.
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there for her scholasticism. It was expected that she would pursue an academic career, but instead she became a nurse. Her lifelong interest in books, writing, and research began to
come together in her early novels, many of which also reflect her nursing background. But she is chiefly known for her later historical novels such as The Last of the
Wine, renowned for its literary style, its historical accuracy -- and what was for its time its amazingly frank and sympathetic treatment of homosexual love. This paper will look at
that novel, reflecting on Renaults depiction of love and war in Peloponnesian times, and showing how they apply to our own century as well. The Last of the Wine,
told in the first person by Alexias, a young Athenian of good family, is set against a backdrop of Greek society immediately before, during, and after the Peloponnesian War. This
war was a conflict between the Greeces two most powerful city-states, Athens and Sparta. These two city-states had cooperated during the Greek victory over the Persians in 479 B.C., but
relations between them deteriorated dramatically in the next few years, and within a quarter of a century had resulted in open hostilities. A treaty was attempted, but a state
of restrained antagonism -- somewhat similar to the "Cold War" of the 1950s and 60s -- simmered just under the surface, threatening at any moment to erupt. War between Athens
and Sparta was inevitable, and when it finally occurred in 431 B.C., it dragged on for twenty-seven years and eventually engulfed the entire Greek-speaking world. This war came to be
called the Peloponnesian War after the location of Sparta and most of its allies in the Peloponnese, the large peninsula that forms the southern part of mainland Greece. The
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