Immortals and Archaic Rome

James Jordan · 17 Jun 2003, 20:24 · from urth-v0306.mbox · original

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From: James Jordan <jbjordan4 at cox.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Immortals and Archaic Rome
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:24:23 -0500
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>
>Crush recants:
>Hmmm. Herodotus 7:83 says that the Immortals were "all Persians". So either
>Latro was not an Immortal, or Wolfe is engaging in literary license in
>presuming that Latro somehow gained a special honor. There *were* 10,000 of
>them so I guess it is not inconceivable that a Latin slipped in.

         Or maybe that "Persian" does not refer to race per se, but to=20
those considered part of Persia, which was pretty multifarious racially.=20
Latro could have been an adopted "Persian," since adoption of various kinds=20
was quite common in the ancient world.

Nutria


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