Propaganda and Reality: Hittites vs Pharaoh Ramesses
Getting to the truth in wartime has always been difficult. Pharaoh Ramesses, after the Battle of Kadesh, portrayed his version in some interestingly distorted ways.
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Judith Starkston
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.
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom Feb 13-19
Join me Feb 25-28 at Left Coast Crime. Here are some posts from around the web that I enjoyed this week: badger turns Bronze Age archaeologist, Roman restaurant in France, the Homer reading club talks Achilles and Harper Lee memories.
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom Feb 6-12
Some posts I enjoyed this week: interview with Andrew Levkoff re his Roman series, Mycenaean mine in Greece, interview with Priscilla Royal by Sharon Kay Penman and the Met colorizes the Temple of Dendur
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom Jan 30-Feb 6
Posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Pompeii’s casts get new life, prehistory of domesticated cats in China, Mayan Codices from Elle Jauffret and new ideas & old myth busting about Vikings.
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom Jan 23-29
I had a great time at the San Diego State University Writers’ Conference, details inside. Here are some posts I enjoyed this week: ancient footprints found near Tucson, new findings fr a venerable, excellent archaeological dig in Turkey, Çatalhöyük, linguists date your childhood fairytales to the Bronze Age, and an overview article about Hittites (in case you haven’t yet got the picture from this website…)
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom Jan 16-22
Catch up on Windy Lynn Harris’ great AZ HNS talk about getting short prose published. You can find a detailed write up by Kristen McQuinn. Also some posts I enjoyed around the web this week: cattish, deadly book humor, Laura Kelley on a Phoenician platter fr the Silk Road and King Midas gets a golden exhibit.
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom Jan 9-15
Some posts I enjoyed this week around the web: Cynthia Robertson on what makes a book brilliant, Bronze Age find in Britain preserved liked Pompeii, what the Iliad tells us about war from Caroline Alexander, Maya royal burial at El Zotz and book humor.
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom Jan 2-8
There’s still time to attend the San Diego State University Writers’ Conference. Here are some posts I enjoyed this week: New temple found on Acropolis, old ship found buried in Alexandria Virginia, Etruscan lecture sponsored by the AIA, astronomical dating of Odysseus?
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom Dec 19-26
Some posts I enjoyed around the web this week: the latest finds at Hala Sultan Tekke Cyprus, underwater archaeology at Corinth Greece, the desert year in review by Melissa Crytzer Fry & a smuggled Hittite Seal comes to Çorum.
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom Dec 12-18
Here are some posts I enjoyed around the web this week: historical fiction box sets from several periods & authors (Libi Astaire, Libbie Hawker, JJ Toner, Rebecca Lochlann, M. Louisa Locke and Sarah Woodbury), Geraldine Brooks on recreating ancient psyches, sunken ship full of Roman fish sauce, and King Tut’s stylish beard glued on with beeswax.