Satyricon and Soldier

Adam Thornton · 18 Aug 2006, 21:15 · from 2006-August.txt.gz

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From: adam at io.com (Adam Thornton)
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:15:04 -0700
Subject: (urth) Satyricon and Soldier
Message-ID: <7091F404-25AC-4008-9C96-BB67BBC61A31 at io.com>

I assume this has been mentioned before, but, uh, everyone's aware of  
how much the Latro books read like _The Satyricon_--the damaged Latin- 
speaking hero on a quest throughout the Roman world to appease his  
god--right?

It's just that the holes in Latro's story come from the hole in his  
head, rather than the holes in a text passed down less-than- 
faithfully for two millennia.

I'm rereading _The Satyricon_ as research for a project I'm working  
on, and I was struck by how familiar a lot of it felt.

Adam

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