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.
My weekly roundup of posts I enjoyed: Cemetery at Amarna reveals child labor and abuse, DNA from mummies reveals changes over time in Egyptian connectedness to other peoples, cat fur for coats in Medieval period–yuck, Roman bath comes to light in Chichester and ASOR blog on Sumerian art’s influence on modern art
My weekly roundup of posts from around the web: development of Greek revealed in almost extinct dialect spoken in Turkish village, Egyptian artifact lost in WWII returns to Germany, Roman frescoes in catacombs get a laser cleaning
My weekly roundup of posts I enjoyed: adventures at Phoenix Comicon, modern disaster for a Roman arch, mummification materials found in Middle Kingdom tomb, new Cairo Museum toting Tut’s treasures across the city, mass grave from Thirty Year’s War, Trojan period finds in Western Turkey, Getty Museum’s Palmyra online exhibit, Gamla dig in Israel
My weekly roundup of posts I enjoyed: Mary Beard’s review of 2 novels based in Greek myth, the finds from building metro in Thessaloniki Greece from Alex the Great to Roman, Alex Tizon’s essay “My Family’s Slave” and etiquette ancient Egyptian style
Here is my weekly roundup of posts I enjoyed: Egyptian tomb gardens, Mausoleum of Augustus to be restored, Viking cave with mysterious contents, legal papyri fr Israel reveal daily life of women, marketing advice for authors from Jane Friedman
My weekly roundup of posts I enjoyed: interpreting Idalion Cyprus’s temples and artifacts, new tomb near Luxor Egypt with bonus mummies, new Mycenaean tomb at Salamina Greece, Roman northern Britain new finds including keys, coin manufacture and inkpots
Here’s my weekly roundup of posts I enjoyed: The New Yorker objects to comparing the war of the Iliad to modern war, a fantasy story by Beth Cato, mapping fictional worlds and Mesopotamian beer-Enkibru anyone?
My review of Emily Hauser’s For the Winner, an enchanting, dramatic novel that brings to life iconic mythic characters, including a woman whose voice had long been silenced.
My weekly roundup of posts I enjoyed: website of films set in ancient Egypt, a new pyramid found, a lecture on the historical basis of the Trojan War and another on Hellenistic temples in the Peloponnese.
Here’s my weekly roundup of posts I enjoyed: Aliette de Bodard on embracing mythic traditions from across the world, a medieval Jewish cemetery resurfaces in Rome, Scott Lynch on why pirates come Black, female and middle-aged, speaking of border walls brings Hadrian’s to mind, laugh with Tinney Heath about speaking a foreign language on the language’s home turf
