Need the gods judge us further? Surely that is sentence enough, to live with ourselves, and to remember. ‘What is it like there, in the fields of Hades where the sun does not rise or set, nor seasons alter? Nor do men change for where change is life is, and these, who are only shadows of lives past, must keep forever the shape of their earthly selves, whatever they made of them when they walked in daylight. He does not doubt that he is ready for the responsibility. But the mainland kingdoms may cause him trouble as well and he will have to work to subdue them. He has left Crete kingless and vulnerable and he does not want to hesitate to capture it and ensure that mainland Greek kingdoms will no longer have to pay tribute to an island king. Theseus now finds himself King of Athens. Theseus neglected to do so, thinking it unimportant and since the gods gave him no sign to do otherwise, he sailed into Athens with black sails to find his father has taken his own life thinking his son dead. Before he had left, King Aigeus told Theseus to use white sails on his return to Athens to let him know his son was alive. Having survived enslavement as a bull-dancer on Crete, led his fellow slaves in an uprising and slain the Minotauros, Theseus returns to Athens to find his father dead and himself to blame. Note – since The Bull From the Sea is a sequel, this review contains spoilers with regards to the earlier novel, The King Must Die.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |