Mary Renault's Worldbuilding
The LRB Podcast
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Renault and the Minotaur
The Minotaur is actually this sort of large necked, must bound horrible illegitimate steps on of the king. Theseus really believes that he is both the son of King Agias of Athens and also the son of Poseidon. And she gives him this rather interesting ability to sense earthquakes before they happen. So there are all these little kind of clever delights all sprinkled over the novels.
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