Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom Dec 5-11
Posts I enjoyed this week: Trojan Horse on Chicago subway stop, Homer guides political discussion, a reader’s cartoon & a medieval herbarium digitized online.
Posts I enjoyed this week: Trojan Horse on Chicago subway stop, Homer guides political discussion, a reader’s cartoon & a medieval herbarium digitized online.
Here are some posts I enjoyed this week: Donis Casey on how writing is like archeology, some marketing advice for authors, the PBS show on the Trojan Horse, and a writer cartoon
Here are some posts I enjoyed this week: Archaeology at Troy, Aztec skulls, Mycenaean Palace near Sparta, Writing internal dialogue by Marcy Kennedy
Posts I enjoyed this week: Ancient Greek Inventions, archaeology in Turkey both Neolithic and Late Bronze Age, Shona Patel’s Flame Tree Road and Kate Quinn’s Lady of the Eternal City, Nailing your Email Subject Line by Sharon Bially
My favorites around the web this week: an interview about Hand of Fire by Fiona McVie, Kate Atherton’s review of Lindsey Davis’s Deadly Elections, and Neolithic and Mycenaean graves of great interest in Greece.
Is the Trojan War history or myth? A question with a surprising amount of evidence to answer it.
Can we say with reasonable certainty that we know where the real city of Troy is located and what life was like there during the period of a possible Trojan War, that is, the Late Bronze Age?