Tag: The God’s Wife
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Obligatory Black Friday Sales Post
Because some of us are stuck with Imperator Caesar Divi filius Augustus as a muse and not a financial patron. I promise next week I’ll get back into informative entries (I’m thinking Roman-Ptolemaic naval warfare, then good, old-fashioned land warfare). But I would be remiss going into the biggest shopping weekend of the year if…
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The Ending That Became a Beginning
So, as a start this week, I want to address the handful of Word Press readers who’ve stumbled on this blog from the greater internet. Hi, folks, I do see you, and I’m humbled that anyone would be interested in listening to me blather on about ancient history by choice, unlike, say, my husband, who…
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The Rule of Threes Redux: A Crash Course in the Roman Civil Wars, Part 2
All right, last week we looked at the start of the Roman Civil War, in the 40s BC. The conclusion of this first phase of the war you’re already somewhat familiar with if you’ve read The God’s Wife, or have a passing knowledge of its setting. But as a brief recap: Pompey loses his head…
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The Rule of Threes: A Crash Course on the Roman Civil Wars, Part One
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: democracy just doesn’t work. – Kent Brockman While I was trying to decide what to entertain you all with this week, I was thinking back on one of my first my entries about Octavius and the First Settlement, and I realized that perhaps I should have…
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Modern Myth-Making: The Creation of the Sha
As promised in the last entry, this week we’re going to do a little more storytelling. But instead of a retelling of an old Egyptian myth, I’m going to share with you an entirely new myth I wrote as part of the larger God’s Wife narrative, namely, my interpretation of the origins of Set’s fantastical…
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The Lion Queen: The Creation of Sekhmet (and Hathor)
As I try to wade through my final (no seriously, this one is the last one, I swear) edit of Daughter of Eagles, some of you might be wondering why this part of the writing process seems to take so much longer than, you know, the actual writing. Some of it is simply the battle…
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