I recently conducted a series of interviews with many writers of fiction set in the ancient world and put together one of the cover articles for Historical Novels Review. Ordinarily you need to be a member (which I highly recommend you become!) to read the magazine, but I’m allowed to post it here as an enticement. Click on the title below to read what these authors have to say: Maggie Anton, Geraldine Brooks, Gary Corby, Ruth Downie, Stephanie Dray, Margaret George, Libbie Hawker, Tim Leach, Rebecca Lochlann, Alison Morton, Kate Quinn, Elisabeth Storrs and Stephanie Thornton.
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I am currently listening to Mary Beard’s SPQR audiobook. Her opening theme is how relevant the intricacies of Roman history resonate in today’s politics and histories. You are so right–humans basically stay the same in essence, only the technology differs. Good piece of writing.
I can’t wait to hear about Beard’s book over lunch. I haven’t read it yet. Shame on me, but you know how these things go. In the book I’m writing now set in 13th C BCE I keep finding so many parallels to modern politics. I don’t like to beat any drums, but I suspect my readers will hear the echoes just as loudly as I do and see how the sorting and thinking my characters must do to survive is an entirely relevant project for them as modern citizens of the world.
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