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>"The gods own this world, not we. We are but landless men, even the most powerful king. The gods permit us to till their fields, then take our crop. We meet and love, someone builds a tomb for us, perhaps. It does not matter—someone else will rob it, and the winds puff away our dust; then we shall be forgotten. For me it is no different, only faster; but I have written in my scroll how Pharetra smiled at me. For as long as the papyrus is preserved she will be here, though even little Io is only brown dust sobbing down the night wind with all the rest."

>> No.6248570

God, I need to read this. Wolfe is maybe my favorite writer, and I love myth.

>> No.6248575
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>>6248564
>Gene Wolfe writes about the Greeks

It doesn't get any more /lit/

>> No.6248579

what a fucking genre pleb, amirite?
now lets discuss the minutia of an obscure philosopher dead three hundred years

>> No.6248588

>>6248579
fucking this.

plebs get out of my /lit/

>> No.6248597

>>6248575
>>6248575
Technically, Latro is a Roman, right?

>> No.6248599

So I should buy this.

>> No.6248601

>>6248597
but the story is in Greece, mostly

>> No.6248602

>>6248597
Did you read the books?

Latro is a Roman soldier, but he's adventuring in Greece (and Thrace, and Egypt)

Strictly speaking it takes place too early for there to be a Rome as such, although I was surprised to learn that there are indeed records of Latin mercenaries fighting for Persia

>> No.6248662

I really wish Wolfe wrote the third book immediately following the second. I imagine it would have been a proper conclusion to the story of Latro.

>> No.6249898

>>6248662
its not, that ends with him wandering the desert

he has said he might write a 4th with him going to south america, citing the long debunked myth of phonecians going there as fact
(wolfe believes a lot of weird and wrong shit)

>> No.6249936

>>6249898
Assuming he lives that long. Guy looks like an ancient, rotund walrus.

>> No.6250284

>>6249898

I don't think he actually believes it. I think he mines these obscure and esoteric tidbits of history to use in his writings. He does a lot of similar stuff in his stories such as The Hero as Werwolf, where he uses the original meaning of Werwolf, namely someone with a beastial nature, to characterize his protagonist.

>> No.6252040

>>6250284
He specifically said it was true

>> No.6252088

>>6249936
The power of myth is keeping him alive.