The ending of Soldier of Arete

Bob Miller · 03 Feb 2007, 22:55 · from 2007-February.txt.gz

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From: bob_bageera at hotmail.com (Bob Miller)
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:55:11 -0600
Subject: (urth) The ending of Soldier of Arete
In-Reply-To: <4634.67.142.130.11.1170538960.squirrel at brunians.org>
Message-ID: <BAY135-F155EC895BF5D5BA3AE1731889A0 at phx.gbl>





Didn't Pasicrates get him to order Polos to obey him?

I don't think pederasty sits too well with Latro, somehow.
Pasicrates did get Latro to order Polos to obey him, but that was much 
earlier than the ending and Latro would have killed Pasicrates then except 
he could not get Polos to actually tell him what had happened.  Much trouble 
avoided by many and maybe much trouble created for some by a few sword 
strokes.



.

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 > And by his dead Amazon lover.
 >
 > But there is undeniably something going on with Pasicrates as well,
 > because
 > of the dreams, etc.
 >
 >
 >>Latro is depressed about the slaughter of the helots by the Spartans,
 >>not by Pasicrates.
 >>
 >>Joel
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 >> >
 >> >
 >> > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:20:44 +1100 Tom Foster
 >> > <tbfoster at ntlworld.com> wrote:
 >> >> A long-time lurker writes, though I have posted several times
 >> >> before in the past...
 >> >>
 >> >> I've been re-reading the first two Latro novels in preparation for
 >> >
 >> >> 'Soldier of Sidon', and have just finished 'Arete'. I remember
 >> >> finding the ending confusing on first reading several years ago,
 >> >> and had hoped it would be a bit clearer to me this time round,
 >> >> having read many posts in the urth archives, and some Robert
 >> >> Graves and Herodotus. However, I still don't really understand
 >> >> what happens, event-by-event so to speak (though much of the rest
 >> >> of the events of the two books as much clearer this time round,
 >> >> mainly thanks to past posts on this list).
 >> >
 >> > The ending is pretty confusing. I posted my interpretation a few
 >> > weeks ago - should be in the archives, fwiw.
 >> >
 >> > On Polos: Pasicrates is pederastically infatuated with him and has
 >> > molested him at least once in the past. Polos now says that he'll
 >> > try to be Pasicrates' lover if he'll just let go of his anger at
 >> > Latro. This is .... icky.
 >> >
 >> > On Latro's depression: I've never understood why Pasicrates is the
 >> > cause of this, either.
 >> >
 >>
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