(urth) Satyricon and Soldier

[Adam Thornton]

I assume this has been mentioned before, but, uh, everyone's aware of  
how much the Latro books read like _The Satyricon_--the damaged Latin- 
speaking hero on a quest throughout the Roman world to appease his  
god--right?

It's just that the holes in Latro's story come from the hole in his  
head, rather than the holes in a text passed down less-than- 
faithfully for two millennia.

I'm rereading _The Satyricon_ as research for a project I'm working  
on, and I was struck by how familiar a lot of it felt.

Adam