(urth) Typhon's nature

[Jeff Wilson]

On 10/20/2011 5:42 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> *From:* Gerry Quinn <mailto:gerry at bindweed.com>
>  > Fair enough,though it doesn’t really give the impression that Typhon
>  > was trying to suppress knowledge. But I just found a problem:
>  >
>  > “
> Their spoil was gathered into a great heap in the city of Nessus,
>  > which was then newly built, to be burned.”
>  >
>  > Surely Nessus was built long before the reign of Typhon?
> I don’t mean to say this disproves Andrew’s theory: errors may have
> crept into the history related by Cyriaca, or Wolfe may have nodded.
> Certainly it’s odd that the guy should make a point about Typhon
> bringing records to the Citadel if it wasn’t meant to be him.

On the other hand, Wolfe is a keen consumer of ancient histories where 
it is very commonplace for later rulers to accumulate misattributed 
works of their predecessors. The same is true of more contemporary 
history, as witness the various Cleopatra's Needles.


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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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