Judith Starkston has spent too much time exploring the remains of the ancient worlds of the Greeks and Hittites. Their myths and clashes inspire her fiction and open gates to magical realms. She has degrees in Classics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and Cornell. She loves myths and telling stories, and her novels imbue fantasy with the richness of ancient worlds. The first book in her Trojan Threads Series, Hand of Fire was a semi-finalist for the M.M. Bennett’s Award for Historical Fiction. Priestess of Ishana, the first in her historical fantasy Tesha series, won the San Diego State University Conference Choice Award. Judith is represented by Richard Curtis.
The launch of MY DEAR HAMILTON, the great untold American story of Eliza Hamilton, historical fiction by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie. “A revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define herself in the wake of war, betrayal, and tragedy”
Here’s my roundup of archaeology and history: date of Netflix launch of Troy Fall of a City, ancient pottery around the Baltic Sea shows how women carried cultural change through migratory marriages, the new archaeology of ancient gardens & a pre-Mycenaean chamber tomb in Thessaly
Here’s my round up of archaeology and history that I enjoyed from around the web: Mining big data to study gender in fiction, trade networks and globalism in Bronze Age Anatolia and Assyria, Mesopotamian art styles in King Tut’s treasures, preserving cursed mummies in Egypt
My roundup of history and archaeology: a lecture on the Delphic Oracle, Roman mosaics found in Caesaria, Troy Fall of a City’s Achilles talks about his part, a cartoon, thinking about awkward moments in the Odyssey in the Paris Review, Roman temples with poison gas emissions and playing with Roman dice.
My roundup of archaeology and history with some Fantasy/SciFi tossed in: color perception & language in ancient Near East and Greek, the blue-eyed, black skinned face of the first Brit & a short story in honor of libraries
My roundup of archaeology and history: Archaeology lecture for Phoenix area, Urusula LeGuin’s “remarkable spirit”, info about BBC/Netflix show Troy: Fall of a City, Reese Witherspoon on “female heroes that have always been in the shadows and now are coming into the light,” and the earliest ochre “crayon” found under a peat bog/ancient lake
Spotlight on Ann Griffin’s Another Ocean to Cross
My roundup of history and archaeology: a Roman game board uncovered in Slovakia, catching up on the ancient mundane via papyrus mummy casing, an amazing resource website on race in the ancient world & pottery shard depicting a Parthenon scene comes clean in the Galilee with Athena emerging from Zeus’s head (patriarchy at it again?)
My roundup of history and archaeology: 6 Sci-fi/fantasy writers on what these genres offer to a world gone mad, the tale of an Iraqi archaeological site including griffins, evidence of human sacrifice in Greece, Netflix and the BBC’s series on the Trojan War, and Archaeology Magazine’s top 10 discoveries of 2017
My weekly roundup of history and archaeology: a haunting mold for Phoenician funeral masks, reconstructing ancient Greek music, and Neolithic bones show women did the heavy labor despite earlier assumptions they stuck to light domestic tasks (surprise, surprise…)
