Fireborne was inspired by many sources, chief among them Virgil’s Aeneid and Plato’s Republic. I first read Virgil as a high school Latin student and remember being struck, like Annie, by the tragedy of lines that I only half understood. The translations I made then, particularly those recounting Aeneas’s flight from burning Troy, became the adaptive source for many of the lines in Fireborne attributed to the Aurelian Cycle.
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