title: The Mask of Apollo: A Novel
author:  Mary Renault 
description: h-century B.C. Greece, The Mask of Apollo is narrated by Nikeratos, a tragic actor who takes with him on all his travels a gold mask of Apollo, a relic of the theater's golden age, which is now past. At first his mascot, the mask gradually becomes his conscience, and he refers to it his gravest decisions, when he finds himself at the center of a political crisis in which the philosopher Plato is also involved. Much of the action is set in Syracuse, where Plato's friend Dion is trying to persuade the young tyrant Dionysios the Younger to accept the rule of law. Through Nikeratos' eyes, the reader watches as the clash between the two looses all the pent-up violence in the city.
zlib_text: The	Mask	of	Apollo
  A	Novel
  Mary	Renault
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  δaκpva	μέν	‘Eκάßη	τε	καί	‘Iλιάδεσσι	γυναιξί	Moîpaι	έπέκλwσav	δή
  τότε	γεινομέναις,	σοì	δέ,	Δίων,	ρέξavτι	κaλwv	έπινίκιον	έpγωv
  δαίμovες	ευροίας	έλπίδας	έξέχεαν.	κεîσαι	δ’	ευρυχόρω	εv	πατρίδι
  τίμιος	άστιος,	ώ	έμòν	έκμήνας	θυμòν	έρωτι	Δίων.
  Tears	were	for	Hekabê,	friend,	and	for	Ilion’s	women,
  Spun	into	the	dark	Web	on	the	day	of	their	birth,
  But	for	you	our	hopes	were	great,	and	great	the	triumph,
  Cancelled	alike	by	the	gods	at	the	point	of	glory.
  Now	you	lie	in	your	own	land,	now	all	men	honor	you—
  But	I	loved	you,	O	Diôn!
  PLATO
  (Translation	by	Dudley	Fitts)
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  Author’s	Note
  A	Biography	of	Mary	Renault
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