The Mask of Apollo: A Novel

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

The translation of Plato’s epitaph to Dion on page v is reprinted from Dudley Fitts, ed., Poems from the Greek Anthology, by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. 1938, 1941, © 1956 by New Directions.

The quotations from Euripides’ The Trojan Women on pages 8 and 9 are reprinted from Euripedes, Vol. III of The Complete Greek Tragedies, David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, eds., by permission of the University of Chicago Press, © 1956 by the University of Chicago.

Copyright © 1966 by Mary Renault

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