# 'Gene Wolfe’s Soldier of the Mist decoded: Asopus/Plataea' *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 15 Jun 2010* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Gwern Branwen *15 Jun 2010, 00:22* Spotted in Google Alerts: http://ubikcan.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/gene-wolfes-soldier-of-the-mist-decoded-asopusplataea/ ``` gwern ``` --- ### James Wynn *15 Jun 2010, 01:13 · in reply to Gwern Branwen* > On 6/14/2010 7:22 PM, Gwern Branwen wrote: > Spotted in Google Alerts: > http://ubikcan.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/gene-wolfes-soldier-of-the-mist-decoded-asopusplataea/ > "Asopus, whom Latro calls the “river-man” (p. 6) and the “Swift God” (p. 7) is both the name of a god and the name of the important river next to the battle scene that just precedes the opening of the novel." All this is true. I haven't found any reference to him having horns, however. --- ### Eugene Zaretskiy *15 Jun 2010, 01:24 · in reply to James Wynn* > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:13 PM, James Wynn wrote: > All this is true. I haven't found any reference to him having horns, > however. "[Adrastos addresse the River Asopos, whose waters refresh the parched troops of the army of the Seven Against Thebes :] O thou, whom no suns are wont to tame, O horned one, so lavish of never failing waters..." Source: http://www.theoi.com/Potamos/PotamosAsopos.html ``` Eugene Z http://blog.eugenez.net ``` ---