Nightside the Long Sun

This book was filled with Classical references, particularly religious ones. Here are a few:

• Most of the deities are not actually members of the Greco-Roman pantheon, but several appeared to be named after mythical monsters such as Echidna, Scylla and the sirens Molpe & Thelxiepeia. The god of criminals is called Tartaros, after the prison of the Titans.
• The exception is Kypris, whose name is an epithet of Aphrodite, and who is described as recieving white birds in sacrifice, just as Aphrodite does.
• The temple which the main character is trying to save is called a manteion: a transliteration of the Greek word μαντεῖον, meaning the shrine housing an oracle. The attached school is called a palaestra, also a Greek word although it usually refers to a school for physical education.
• The main character's title, Patera, is a kind of dish used for offerings. At other times, he is referred to as an auger, though he seems more like a haruspex in the way he interprets the will of the gods.