Posts I enjoyed from around the web this week: Hamilton, the Revolution as writing guide, Roman bones reveal widespread arthritis, Tut’s outer space dagger, Mesopotamian Foundation Figures at the Morgan & a Classics librarian goes punk
I recently conducted a series of interviews with many writers of fiction set in the ancient world and put together one of the cover articles for Historical Novels Review. Ordinarily you need to be a member (which I highly recommend you become!) to read the magazine, but I’m allowed to post it here as an enticement.
Some personal news, Hand of Fire is transitioning to a new publishing home and some posts I enjoyed from around the web: the excavations of Shakespeare’s Curtain theatre continue to surprise and a paper arguing that Roman women had more independence than we thought. (kind of depends on what you thought…)
Some posts I enjoyed from around the web this week: Athenian Trireme sails again, Bronze Age Cyprus wowing with size and reach, Tut disappointment, writing from a cartoon
Review of Emily Hauser’s For the Most Beautiful, a novel of the women of Troy.
Here are some posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Shakespeare’s Curtain Theatre excavated, Tarkhan Dress Oldest clothing dated, Mayan ruins or not, MM Bennetts finalists, gallery of historical novels
AZ Historical Novel Society, quail babies and some posts I enjoyed this week around the web: literacy in Pompeii, a huge stash of Roman coins found in Spain and keeping guns out of fairy tales.
Some posts from around the web that I enjoyed this week: the many genres of Cuneiform, mystery of Roman Britain skulls, the worst reading ever (but funniest), 2,500 yr old seals fr Jerusalem
Some posts I enjoyed this week around the web: Mary Beard, author of SPQR, new history of Rome takes on age-repelled trolls, the Colosseum gets a makeover, Hatshepsut carving found, book giveaway tips and Roman skeleton mosaic in Antioch
Don’t miss the Tempe Book Festival Saturday April 16. I’ll be speaking from 11-12. Posts I enjoyed this week: ostracon shopping lists show early literacy in Biblical period, Babylonian school exercise using the Pythagorean Theorem 1300 years before Pythagoras. And my travels this week (which may not qualify as interesting…)
