Some posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Mystery cults in Roman Britain, interview with Amalia Carosella about Helen of Sparta, digital fatigue and ebooks, the lopsided Great Pyramid of Giza, an Ode to Disappointment
Some posts I enjoyed from around the web this week: a list of 21 historical novels you may not have read but should, new monument at Petra found and a video reconstructing Patroclus’s pyre fr Eleutherna, Crete”s new museum and archaeological dig.
Posts from around the web that I enjoyed this week: Earliest Roman writing in London rises from the mud, what’s the difference between literary and commercial fiction? Roman curse tablets from Britain (my we’re getting very “early literary” fr Britain this week…), a writer’s cartoon and the shipwreck archaeological site where the Antikythera mechanism was found gets a new more technologically capable look.
In Daughter of Sand and Stone, Libbie Hawker brings us the timely story of Zenobia, an ancient queen of Palmyra, the beautiful ruins of which city ISIS recently destroyed. My review of this lush and vivid novel.
Posts I enjoyed from around the web this week: Hamilton, the Revolution as writing guide, Roman bones reveal widespread arthritis, Tut’s outer space dagger, Mesopotamian Foundation Figures at the Morgan & a Classics librarian goes punk
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.
Some posts I enjoyed from around the web this week: Athenian Trireme sails again, Bronze Age Cyprus wowing with size and reach, Tut disappointment, writing from a cartoon
Review of Emily Hauser’s For the Most Beautiful, a novel of the women of Troy.
Here are some posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Shakespeare’s Curtain Theatre excavated, Tarkhan Dress Oldest clothing dated, Mayan ruins or not, MM Bennetts finalists, gallery of historical novels
AZ Historical Novel Society, quail babies and some posts I enjoyed this week around the web: literacy in Pompeii, a huge stash of Roman coins found in Spain and keeping guns out of fairy tales.
