Essential Background Reading for Soldier Series

Michael Straight · 01 Dec 2006, 05:20 · from 2006-November.txt.gz

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From: mfstraight at gmail.com (Michael Straight)
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:20:10 -0700
Subject: (urth) Essential Background Reading for Soldier Series
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On 11/30/06, thalassocrat at nym.hush.com <thalassocrat at nym.hush.com> wrote:

[Stuff about the fates of Pausanius and Themistocles deleted]

Wow, Thalassocrat!  You just made my head explode for the second time
in 24 hours.

I appreciate Don's suggestions to read the Illiad, Odyssey, and
Herotidous -- all of them worth reading for their own sake, of course
-- but I guess I was looking for something a little more specific.
Thalssocrat's two bits of information in this thread (Pausanius and
the stuff about the Amazons) just shed enormous amounts of light on
the plot for me.

Are there other stories or facts like that in Homer or Herotidous I
ought to know?

Rostrum

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