(urth) The ending of Soldier of Arete

[Chris]

And by his dead Amazon lover.

But there is undeniably something going on with Pasicrates as well, because 
of the dreams, etc.


>Latro is depressed about the slaughter of the helots by the Spartans,
>not by Pasicrates.
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>Joel
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> > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:20:44 +1100 Tom Foster
> > <tbfoster at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> >> A long-time lurker writes, though I have posted several times
> >> before in the past...
> >>
> >> I've been re-reading the first two Latro novels in preparation for
> >
> >> 'Soldier of Sidon', and have just finished 'Arete'. I remember
> >> finding the ending confusing on first reading several years ago,
> >> and had hoped it would be a bit clearer to me this time round,
> >> having read many posts in the urth archives, and some Robert
> >> Graves and Herodotus. However, I still don't really understand
> >> what happens, event-by-event so to speak (though much of the rest
> >> of the events of the two books as much clearer this time round,
> >> mainly thanks to past posts on this list).
> >
> > The ending is pretty confusing. I posted my interpretation a few
> > weeks ago - should be in the archives, fwiw.
> >
> > On Polos: Pasicrates is pederastically infatuated with him and has
> > molested him at least once in the past. Polos now says that he'll
> > try to be Pasicrates' lover if he'll just let go of his anger at
> > Latro. This is .... icky.
> >
> > On Latro's depression: I've never understood why Pasicrates is the
> > cause of this, either.
> >
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