# The Praise Singer

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- Book: [The Praise Singer](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-renault/the-praise-singer) ([The Praise Singer.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-renault/the-praise-singer.md))
- Authors: [Mary Renault](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-renault)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-7571-420-7
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2003-04-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the story of the great lyric poet Simonides, Mary Renault brings alive a time in Greece when tyrants kept an unsteady rule and poetry, music, and royal patronage combined to produce a flowering of the...