Latro and some possible background texts

PMorris33 · 24 Jan 2003, 01:44 · from urth-v0301.mbox · original

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From: PMorris33 at aol.com
Subject: (urth) Re: Latro and some possible background texts
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 20:44:03 -0500
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May I recommend Peter Green's "Greco-Persian Wars" as a good starting place=
 for the historical context of poor Latro's wanderings.  Green is an Englis=
hman, both a textual expert and a literary histori
Green does a pretty good job of sorting out the complex alliances of the va=
rious Greek states.  Remember many of the Ionian Greeks stayed loyal to the=
 Persian Great King.  We see a lot of this in the=20
I think whoever pointed out that Latro is in the same fix as the guy in the=
 movie "Momento" is absolutely correct.  Except Latro has a scroll and does=
n't have to mark up his own body. =20

Somewhere, somehow, we will have to find out what Latro was doing in Egypt.=
  It is well known that one of the Egyptian monuments bears a graffito "Lat=
ro".  I think it may be the Sphinx.  Latro obvious
One of the members of this group mentioned that Wolfe found these books har=
d to write.  Having to juggle so much ...what was known during the night, w=
hat was known at noon.... when the memory fades et
Pippen

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