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Christopher D Stanley
- Feb 25
- 3 min
What Saith the Oracle?
5th century BCE Greek painting from a drinking bowl showing Aegeus, one of the mythical founders of Athens, consulting the oracle at...
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Christopher D Stanley
- Sep 9, 2021
- 3 min
What’s So Bad about Christians?
Second-century AD Christian mural showing a communion ceremony led by a woman (left), from the Catacomb of Marcellinus and Peter in Rome....
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Christopher D Stanley
- Mar 21, 2021
- 3 min
What's in a Dream?
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...
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Christopher D Stanley
- Feb 22, 2021
- 3 min
Women Rule! Mighty Goddesses of Asia Minor
Long before the coming of the Greeks and Romans, the peoples of Asia Minor (modern Turkey) honored powerful earth goddesses as a key...
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Christopher D Stanley
- Feb 3, 2021
- 3 min
Taking care of business, Roman style
Urine collection pot from the shop of a fuller (launderer) in Pompeii, Italy The first two books of my new historical fiction trilogy, A...
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Christopher D Stanley
- Jan 10, 2021
- 3 min
Dining with Greeks and Roman
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...
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Christopher D Stanley
- Dec 19, 2020
- 3 min
Getting around in Roman Asia Minor
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...
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Christopher D Stanley
- Dec 16, 2020
- 2 min
Roman roads in Asia Minor
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...
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Christopher D Stanley
- Nov 19, 2020
- 3 min
Anti-Judaism in the Roman World
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,...
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Christopher D Stanley
- Oct 26, 2020
- 5 min
Asklepios, Gracious Savior and Healer
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...
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Christopher D Stanley
- Oct 11, 2020
- 1 min
The Oldest Known Greek Song
Greek vase painting showing four of the nine Greek muses playing musical instruments Music doesn't play a notable role in my two novels,...
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Christopher D Stanley
- Sep 26, 2020
- 2 min
Ancient Physicians and Health Care
Fresco from Pompeii depicting a physician removing an arrowhead from the leg of Aeneas In today’s world physicians are highly trained,...
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Christopher D Stanley
- Sep 8, 2020
- 2 min
Sickness in the Roman world
Shared public toilets were a common channel for spreading disease in Greek and Roman cities It can be hard for citizens of modern Western...
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Christopher D Stanley
- Aug 23, 2020
- 2 min
To market, to market...
Ruins of the commercial agora in Ephesus, Turkey Did you ever wonder where people in the ancient world bought the things that they needed...
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Christopher D Stanley
- Jul 28, 2020
- 3 min
An empire of cities
Artist's rendition of a typical Greek city One of the hardest things for modern readers to comprehend about the ancient world, at least...
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Christopher D Stanley
- Jul 1, 2020
- 3 min
Marking time with the Romans
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...
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Christopher D Stanley
- Jun 30, 2020
- 2 min
Antioch-near-Pisidia
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...
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Christopher D Stanley
- Jun 28, 2020
- 2 min
Slavery in the Roman world
Mosaic of slaves preparing for or serving at a banquet I anticipate that many of my readers will be surprised to see the relatively...
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