(urth) Names in the Soldier books

Martinus Scriblerus martinus.scriblerus at gmail.com
Thu Apr 12 11:06:43 PDT 2007


On 4/12/07, Matthew King <automatthew at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Batrinque at aol.com wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 4/11/2007 6:34:44 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > crushtv at gmail.com writes:
> > I agree, especially since the gods in the Greek portion of "Soldier"
> > are way too obscure for pedestrian movie watchers.
> > Are there any published works (or on-line sites) that "translate"
> > the names of cities, lands, and gods as they appear in "Soldier in
> > the Mist"?  I am reasonably conversant with classical Greece, but I
> > am sure that there were some references that escaped me.
> >
>
>  From the Urth archives:
>
> http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0029/0212.shtml

Thanks - this will be useful. These are amongst my favourite books by
Gene Wolfe.

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