(urth) Soldier Of The Mist: first reading (mit spoilers)

[Jeff Wilson]

On 1/27/2010 11:46 AM, John Smith wrote:
>     At the beginning of Chapter 1, Latro is told that he had been
>     wounded "near the shrine of the Earth Mother, where the Great King's
>     army fought the army of Thought and the Rope Makers."
>
>     I don't remember if Wolfe says anything about the desecration of the
>     grove, but Herodotus does. The Persian navy sailed to the sanctuary
>     of Demeter. "There they beached their ships. They cut down
>     cultivated trees, surrounded the ships with a stockade of stone and
>     wood, and fixed stakes in the ground around the stockade." /(The
>     Histories/, trans Robin Waterfield, Oxford World's Classics, p. 580.)

And Wolfe definitely loves his Herodotus; if you look at his portrait in 
_The Faces of Science Fiction_, it is perhaps the most prominently 
displayed volume in his basement library.

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