08/27/03 - Review - "A.D. 62: Pompeii"
In Rebecca East's historical fiction time travel story, the heroine lands in Pompeii right before a devastating earthquake, but several years before the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. She is able to use her modern knowledge of events in history to work her way up the ancient social ladder.
08/20/03 - Review - "Confessions of a Deathmaiden"
Ruth Francisco combines the ancient traditions of human sacrifice and ritualized cannibalism in a mystery about the descendants of the ancient Maya. Smuggled archaeological artifacts posing as containers for marijuana put the police off the scent of an organ harvesting organization.
08/13/03 - Guest Review - "The Tribune"
Irene Hahn reviews "The Tribune," historical fiction about the early Church, by Patrick Larkin.
08/06/03 - Learning About Teaching History
Some ideas from the Internet on how to engage your homeschooled or classroom-taught students' attention when you want them to learn about ancient history.
07/30/03 - Review - "The Jupiter Myth"
The fourteenth Lindsey Davis mystery featuring informer Marcus Didius Falco. In this episode, Falco and family are still in Britain where they run into an organized crime operation.
07/23/03 - Guest Review - "Cleopatra's Heir"
Irene Hahn reviews "Cleopatra's Heir," historical fiction about Caesarion, by Gillian Bradshaw.
07/16/03 - Review - "Cicero," by Anthony Everitt
Anthony Everitt deftly weaves Roman hoodlums, generals, and moralists of the first century B.C. into his story of the life and tragedy of Marcus Tullius Cicero.
06/12/03 - "The Good Life"
A Guest Submission by a philosophy class taught by Michael Bakaoukas of the University of Piraeus. The primary focus is on Socrates' moral philosophy and its effects on both Plato and Aristotle.
06/05/03 - Genealogy of Achilles
The family tree of the great Greek hero Achilles features Zeus (repeatedly) and Pelops, the mortal whose shoulder the goddess Demeter ate.
05/29/03 - Hades
The three main stories featuring Hades -- with Heracles, Persephone, and Theseus.
05/22/03 - Punic Wars POWs
Did the Phoenicians and Romans really crucify captured enemy generals?
05/22/03 - Julius Caesar TNT Miniseries
What may be in store for us in the DeAngelis Group's production of the made-for-TV miniseries about Julius Caesar. Cast includes Richard Harris and Christopher Walken.
05/15/03 - The Roman Circus and the Circus Maximus
The first arena in which racetracks were held in ancient Rome was built by a king. The games ended more than a millennium later.
05/08/03 - Ancient Women Warriors
Ancient queens and other women who led their people into battle: Amazons, Queen Artemisia, Queen Boudicca, Queen Samsi, Queen Tomyris, Trung Sisters, Queen Zenobia.
04/28/03 - Ludi Florales
The ancient licentious games in honor of the Roman goddess of flowers.
04/24/03 - Early Mesopotamian Religion
From individual magic to organized group religion greatly in need of a priest.
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