Re: Ransoms

From: Ian Cooper <ian_hammond_cooper_at_...>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 13:03:03 -0000

> It occurs to me that trying to convince the victor that you are
worth ransoming could be modelled by using your Wealth rating as your Final Action.<

It seems to fit:

"Menelaus came up to him spear in hand, but Adrestus caught him by the knees begging for his life. "Take me alive," he cried, "son of Atreus, and you shall have a full ransom for me: my father is rich and has much treasure of gold, bronze, and wrought iron laid by in his house. From this store he will give you a large ransom should he hear of my being alive and at the ships of the Achaeans." The Illiad, Book 6