Well, I've so far encountered it about Plutarch, Plato, and Zeno, and it makes sense: slaves being the ultimate place where in principle one is unrestrained, and self-control being the ultimate trait of the philosopher. But still...
I have now read 3 HMDragon books, and they are sort of fun, for values of fun that include Dragons Acting Like Battleships and lots of awkward Napoleonic Britishness. Although after the first one, she seems to have taken a page from Jacqueline Carey and is sending them off on Foreign Travel (China in bk. 2, Istanbul and surroundings in bk. 3, and, I'm told, Africa in bk. 4). But at least it's foreign travel -- in space with dragons.
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Date: 2009-05-26 05:51 am (UTC)I have now read 3 HMDragon books, and they are sort of fun, for values of fun that include Dragons Acting Like Battleships and lots of awkward Napoleonic Britishness. Although after the first one, she seems to have taken a page from Jacqueline Carey and is sending them off on Foreign Travel (China in bk. 2, Istanbul and surroundings in bk. 3, and, I'm told, Africa in bk. 4). But at least it's foreign travel --
in spacewith dragons.