Reading the Soldier books

James Jordan · 21 Jan 2003, 21:25 · from urth-v0301.mbox · original

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From: James Jordan <jbjordan4 at cox.net>
Subject: RE: (urth) Reading the Soldier books
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:25:27 -0600
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At 02:03 PM 1/21/2003, you wrote:
>Rostrum said:
>I found the one of the major events of
>Arete totally incomprehensible until someone clued me in to the historical
>event it is based on.
>
>Crush urges:
>The links were nice. Thanks. But as for the Arete event in question, tell
>us! Tell us!
>
>-- Crush

I, Nutria, will tell you. It's the scene at the end of the book, which=20
hints that the helots were massacred by their Spartan owners, immediately=20
after the Spartans freed them for helping fight in the battle. Which they=20
were. But it's far from clear in the book what is going on. There are even=20
missing pages!

Bet I'm right. Anyway, that's the one that stumped me the most.

Nutria

--=20

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