Post originally by jay verkuilen at 2005-03-11 13:45:44
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Jack Fortune wrote:
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>>Sort of. Howard was really big on contrasting the savage versus the civilized. I think that there was more going on than just having stereotypical wildmen antagonists.<<

Also one should note that Howard himself was not really on the side of civilization!


>>In his fictional history "The Hyborian Age," the Picts actually take over and conquer Aquilonia and some of the other civilized kingdoms. The Pictish Empire eventually falls as well, to the Aesir, I think.<<

Yup. IIRC this is reproduced in the book.


>>The rise and fall of civilizations was a major theme for Howard, too.<<

As indeed it is for a hell of a lot of Western writers. IMO, the collapse of the Roman empire looms in our collective psyches.

Jay