Thursday, August 13, 2009

Henslow's Rose

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If you're a fan of the 1998 Oscar-winning film Shakespeare in Love , and if you're in London in the next few weeks, why not drop by ...
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Friday, August 07, 2009

Orpheus & Orphée

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In Greek mythology, Orpheus was the Thracian musician who was so talented that he could charm wild animals and trees and even rocks with hi...
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Thursday, August 06, 2009

Thracian O

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(inspired by J.W. Waterhouse's Nymphs finding the Head of Orpheus ) Thracian O by Caroline Lawrence My tears are small and bitter a...
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Saturday, August 01, 2009

Who Mourns Adonis?

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I am currently writing a book about the most beautiful boy in the world in the year AD 96. In my book, everyone keeps calling him ‘Adonis’....
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Discovering Buffy

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The year was 1999. I had been teaching for ten years. I had been married to Richard for eight. For the first time we had enough money to vis...
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Sunday, July 19, 2009

Silchester Open Day 09

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Calleva Atrebatum, AKA Silchester, was made famous by Rosemary Sutcliffe in her classic historical novel Eagle of the Ninth . In her forward...
Monday, July 13, 2009

Gory Roman Medicine

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I've just spent the weekend in Wales at a Roman site called Caerleon. Known as 'King Arthur's Mount' it is the site of a Fla...
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Saturday, July 11, 2009

Circe Invidiosa

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One of the most striking paintings in the Waterhouse exhibition at London's Royal Academy is a tall painting of a beautiful woman tippi...
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Odysseus by Waterhouse

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The story is so familiar to us that we forget how bizarre it is. The Greek hero Odysseus is on his way home from the Trojan War. He has be...

Narcissus by Waterhouse

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The myth of Narcissus is a famous one. Narcissus was a beautiful Greek shepherd of fifteen who cruelly scorned all those who loved him, in...
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Hylas by Waterhouse

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I often steal plots from Greek myths. After all, their authors are long-dead and can't sue me. For my ninth Roman Mystery, The Colossus...
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Ariadne by Waterhouse

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It is a beautiful summer evening on the Greek island of Naxos. We see an adolescent girl sleeping as a boat pulls away from the jetty. The g...
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Friday, July 03, 2009

Oil Lamp Clues

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The detective and the historian have similar jobs. The detective has to reconstruct the events of a crime. The historian has to reconstr...
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