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The story of the hero Theseus, king of Athens, beginning with his triumphant return from Crete after slaying the Minotaur.

Set in fourth-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...

When Alexander the Great sinks into a coma without having named his successor, the battle for his throne begins.