Essential Background Reading for Soldier Series

Michael Straight · 30 Nov 2006, 22:17 · from 2006-November.txt.gz

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From: mfstraight at gmail.com (Michael Straight)
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:17:31 -0700
Subject: (urth) Essential Background Reading for Soldier Series
Message-ID: <d716a1c40611301417o1c9fd9c1gb60fe2db38936e4f at mail.gmail.com>

On 11/30/06, thalassocrat at nym.hush.com <thalassocrat at nym.hush.com> wrote:

> Theseus was supposed to have kidnapped an Amazon & taken her as his
> wife. When the Amazons invaded Attica seeking revenge, Theseus
> defeated them.

Holy essential background reading, Batman!  I wish I'd known that ten years ago.

Now I'm wondering what else I need to have read.

Essential:

1.  Story of Spartans slaughtering their slaves under pretext of
making them citizens (I defy you to figure that one out just from
Wolfe's text.)

2.  Story of 300 Spartans at Thermopylae.

Less important, but helpful:

3.  Sisyphus.

4.  Demeter and Persephone.

5.  Cupid and Psyche.

(Lots more I'm forgetting)

What else?  Is there anything I'm going to definitely need to make
sense of Soldier of Sidon?

Rostrum

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