I'm thrilled to launch this Website in support of my two new historical novels, A Rooster for Asklepios and A Bull for Pluto. If you've...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Colorized version of a panel from the Arch of Titus in Rome depicting the conquest of the Jews in 70 A.D. (For more on the colorization,...

Relief of the god Asklepios and his daughter Hygeia treating a sleeping girl (Piraeus, Greece) All of the books in my A Slave’s Story...

Greek vase painting showing four of the nine Greek muses playing musical instruments Music doesn't play a notable role in my two novels,...

Fresco from Pompeii depicting a physician removing an arrowhead from the leg of Aeneas In today’s world physicians are highly trained,...

Shared public toilets were a common channel for spreading disease in Greek and Roman cities It can be hard for citizens of modern Western...

Ruins of the commercial agora in Ephesus, Turkey Did you ever wonder where people in the ancient world bought the things that they needed...

Artist's rendition of a typical Greek city One of the hardest things for modern readers to comprehend about the ancient world, at least...

Since the A Slave's Story series is written from the vantage point of one of the characters in the story, I made a conscious effort to...

Map of modern Turkey showing the location of Antioch-near-Pisidia The city where much of this story takes place was one of 16 cities in...

Mosaic of slaves preparing for or serving at a banquet I anticipate that many of my readers will be surprised to see the relatively...