Details on giveaway at the end of the post. As a kid, I fell in love with Robin Hood. Errol Flynn swashbuckling through the forest all clean and pretty. The collected stories I read over and over again. The 50’s TV show (written by blackballed Hollywood writers with a decided anti-McCarthyism bent) with the stirring [...]
Archive for March, 2011
Book Review and Giveaway – “Outlaw” by Angus Donald
Posted in Books, Fiction, Free stuff, Reviews, tagged alan dale, angus donald, free stuff, giveaway, historical fiction, outlaw, review, robin hood on March 31, 2011 | 16 Comments »
Author Interview and Giveaway: “Eromenos” by Melanie McDonald
Posted in Books, Fiction, Free stuff, Interviews, tagged antinous, eromenos, hadrian, historical fiction, interviews, melanie mcdonald, roman on March 20, 2011 | 6 Comments »
It’s been way too long since I posted an author interview on this blog, but finally found a great candidate. Melanie McDonald just published an acclaimed new literary historical novel Eronemos about Emperor Hadrian’s doomed young lover Antinous. From the back: Eros and Thanatos converge in this story of a glorious youth, an untimely death, [...]
Hypatia of Alexandria: Two Books
Posted in Books, Hypatia, Reviews, Wonderful Women, tagged alexandria, book review, deakin, dzielska, hypatia, lady philosopher on March 12, 2011 | 11 Comments »
It’s March—Women’s History Month and the anniversary of a remarkable woman’s death. In AD 415, a Christian mob murdered Hypatia, the renowned Lady Philosopher of Alexandria. The vicious act shocked the city and shamed the early Church. Socrates Scholasticus tells the story in his Historia Ecclesiastica: Hypatia, daughter of the philosopher Theon, who made such [...]
Update on Egypt’s Archaeological Sites
Posted in History in the News, tagged archaeology, egypt, history in the news, looting, treasures on March 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Several weeks ago, I posted about the chaos in Cairo and Alexandria and what was being done to protect the museums. The Egyptian people rose to the occasion and protected their heritage in the cities. But things are looking grim at the more remote archaeological sites. Here’s the latest report from Dr. Hawass:
