June 2, 2023

Remains of the Via Sebaste, the Roman road where the journey narrated in my novels begins. If you were asked to name ten factors that…

Tomb carving of a Roman carpentum, the kind of carriage used in my novels As I noted in a previous post, the Romans either built or…

Where did Greeks and Romans eat? It depends on where you stood in the social pyramid. A vast gulf existed in Greek and Roman cities…

Urine collection pot from the shop of a fuller (launderer) in Pompeii, Italy The first two books of my new historical fiction trilogy, A…

Long before the coming of the Greeks and Romans, the peoples of Asia Minor (modern Turkey) honored powerful earth goddesses as a key…

Hypnos, Greek god of sleep, holds his wand over Leda as Zeus comes to her at night as a swan Modern science views dreams as a set of…

Second-century AD Christian mural showing a communion ceremony led by a woman (left), from the Catacomb of Marcellinus and Peter in Rome….

5th century BCE Greek painting from a drinking bowl showing Aegeus, one of the mythical founders of Athens, consulting the oracle at…