Greek is good!

[jennyblackford]

Just woke up two days in a row to acceptances - today of a long poem to The Pedestal Magazine, and yesterday of a story to the School Magazine. The poem is set in a fantasy version of Bronze Age Greece with real centaurs, and the story is in a purely historical Classical Greece (Piraeus, the port of Athens, during the Peloponnesian War), though it

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[gillpolack]

What a nice couple of days you are having!

[jennyblackford]

Thanks, Gillian! My throat is responding to antibiotics, too, which is an excellent thing!

[endlessrarities]

Yay! Brilliant news. Thanks for the cats in Ancient Greece info - I was never sure if the Ancient Greeks were familiar with cats or not...

[jennyblackford]

There are fairly wild contradictory claims, and the truth seems somewhere in the middle. There have been probable cat bones found in Mycenean sites, but they'e not definitely depicted on anything Greek until relatively late classical (4th century-ish). They were well known to the classical Romans. I've got an Egyptian ship captain giving a kitten to a Greek farmer who he trades with, for his daughter.