"At his words the brave Achaens checked their flight. The daughters of the Old Man of the Sea stood around your corpse lamenting bitterly. They wrapped your body in an imperishable shroud. And the nine Muses chanted your dirge, respondng each to each in their sweet voices. There was not a single Argive to be seen without tears in his eyes, so ( Read more... )

Well, I've done it. I have completely outlined a trilogy I'm working on. Character sketches, book summaries, full history of plot background is done. All that's left is the description of the objects that are the clues for finding the prize in the last book and...writing the bloody things. And here is where some people start twitching ( Read more... )

First plugs and random acts of advertising ( Read more... )

Euxippus? And why are fan ficcers writing about him in their Alexander stories. I don't think I've ever seen this name in any history of Alexander. And I cannot find it anywhere in Mary Renault's trilogy either. So...

WTH?

B.

Here I am, minding my own business, playing World of Warcrack (er Warcraft) and I get this private message, berating me for having named my character after several awesome Hellenstic queens (Arsinoe). The individual in question is Euridice. I laugh and tell this player that I have a warlock named Eurydike (yes, I'm a geek in many formats). She/ ( Read more... )

Whilst job hunting on the official U.S. government website (for kicks), I came across the Federal Marshals assets auction website. I decided to cruise, just to see what came up! To my surprise a listing for four ancient coins comes up and one is listed for Alexander the Great. Curious, I click on the link and begin LAUGHING my head off ( Read more... )

This has nothing to do with history but everything to do with an excellent book. A very good friend of mine has recently had her children's book published. We're both very excited, as we're both fans of each other's writing and so much so that we endeavored to meet, becoming even better friends, despite the distance of half a nation between us ( Read more... )

I told you I was feeling flashes of creativity!

( The Heroes of Troy )

My apologies for not posting in a while. My depression and anxiety got the best of me. I've taken a year off from school and had to move in with Mom. I'm considering the whole exercise a do-over for the moment. So I'm not in Kansas anymore, but down in Oklahoma. Still the middle of nowhere, but a smaller middle of nowhere ( Read more... )

Have an American History seminar. Doing my research paper on witchcraft in the American Republic and how it's used. Don't ask beyond that, let's just say I'm doing a lot of digging into evangelism of the time *twitch ( Read more... )