Essential Background Reading for Soldier Series

don doggett · 30 Nov 2006, 22:49 · from 2006-November.txt.gz

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From: kingwukong at yahoo.com (don doggett)
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:49:50 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Essential Background Reading for Soldier Series
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--- Michael Straight <mfstraight at gmail.com> wrote:

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

The Illiad, Odyssey, Herodotus' histories, a good
general history of Rome that covers the etruscans and
the early Rebublic, a good book on Greek mythology (I
like Graves' Greek Myths because it offers alternate
versions) Frank Miller's 300 (just kidding - it is
entertaining as hell, though). That's all I can think
of off the top of my head.

Don

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