some Latro thoughts

Howdy Earlier last month or the month before a few people were speculating that Latro might be a Tarquin. If that's the case wouldn't that make him a descendant of Aeneas? A lot is made of the Trojan War in these books. There is that story of Achilles' ghost's revenge. It also occurs to me that during the wrestling match we have the ghost of Odysseus, the ghost of Achilles, and perhaps the representative of Aeneas in Latro. Maybe I'm just grasping but I can't help trying to make connections. What could his lineage mean to the story and to his troubles? Don

Were the Tarquins descended from Aeneas? I thought they were supposed to be descendants of <some guy from Corinth>. But if they were, it would make Latro's tryst with Aphrodite a little more outre, since she was Aeneas' mother. On a tangent, there is an enigmatic claim by the Mother-as-Sphinx somewhere towards the end: I am your mother, and your mother's mother. How does that fit mythologically? (Biologically, we've got problems.) If Latro is an avatar of Aeneas, then she seems to be claiming to be both Aphrodite and the Ocean. If Latro is an avatar of Areas, then it's Hera and Rhea. Neither possibility does very much for me, but I guess it means something.