Happy New Year, everyone! Erm… Well… To honest, I’ve never been crazy for New Year. I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s because I’m an historian, and I prefer looking to the past…the distant past. I don’t usually do a ‘round-up’ post for the past year, or a ‘looking ahead’ post for New Year. […]
Welcome to the Writing the Past Article Archive! Our blog, Writing the Past, was begun by Adam Alexander Haviaras back in 2009 as a way to share his research for his books on a wide range of topics from ancient and medieval history and archaeology. Over the years, many of our readers’ favourite posts became […]
Greetings Readers, Hellenophiles, and Romanophiles! Eagles and Dragons Publishing is proud to present an all new ‘World of’ blog series that will take a look at the research, people, and places related to the newest book in The Etrurian Players series, An Altar of Indignities: A Dramatic and Romantic Comedy of Ancient Rome and Athens. […]
Greetings history-lovers! Today we have a bit of a different post for you. I don’t know about you, but whenever I travel around the Mediterranean to visit museums and archaeological sites, one of the things that always draws my eye are mosaics. I can’t get enough of them to be honest. They fascinate me endlessly […]
Greetings Readers and History-Lovers! Welcome to the final post in The World of Sincerity is a Goddess, the blog series in which we are taking a look at some of the research that went into our latest novel set in ancient Rome. If you missed Part VIII on the theatre of Pompey, you can read […]
Greetings Readers and History-Lovers! Welcome back to The World of Sincerity is a Goddess, the blog series in which we are taking a look at some of the research that went into our latest novel set in ancient Rome. If you missed Part VII on doctors in the Roman Empire, you can read that by […]
Happy New Year, and welcome back to The World of Sincerity is a Goddess, the blog series in which we are taking a look at some of the research that went into our latest novel set in ancient Rome. If you missed Part V on prostitution in ancient Rome, you can read that by CLICKING […]
Part I – Drama and Actors in Ancient Rome Salvete Readers and Romanophiles! Welcome to The World of Sincerity is a Goddess, our blog series about the research for the novel, Sincerity is a Goddess: A Dramatic and Romantic Comedy of Ancient Rome. In this first post, we’re going to be taking a brief look […]
Greetings History-Lovers! Welcome back to The World of The Blood Road, the blog series in which we’re looking at the research into the history, people, and places behind-the-scenes of the newest Eagles and Dragons historical fantasy novel. If you missed the previous post on Roman Etruria, you can read that by CLICKING HERE. In Part […]
Welcome back to The World of The Blood Road! I hope you’ve enjoyed this blog series so far. If you missed Part II on travel and transportation in the Roman Empire, you can read that by CLICKING HERE. In Part III, we’re going to take a brief look at one of the more unique acts […]