tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86804821271431098652024-03-13T21:13:11.255+00:00Two Heads, Two Minds, Two Worlds ...The evolution, from first thoughts to self-published copies, of a trilogy of historical fantasy novels set in England and Ancient Greece, with romantic and thriller content, for ages 12 to 112.J M Newsomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439887084973766257noreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680482127143109865.post-60078383969308909302023-12-17T11:05:00.001+00:002023-12-17T11:12:26.173+00:00Back to the story-telling<div class="separator"></div><div class="separator"></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0d3f81; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"> After my last housekeeping/marketing post, this one</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">is mainly about the actual story!</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoGs1062rAFdxY3DcMDZ5WiRqKFdZ7azPrhNM8qYr63uPqmd8EEjXNiEUXKm1xjbf-Aw8WHyLdzWCc_XeqY5OOtakywwNRJ9NjE-vqtsLskL8_VpXwvcZZ8dYHA1OS_WJaUiltmkbvYO-9rM1PGor_5fPK0PAxGlDpmwhuDBFD_f4aWJJbk5UXtN1yB3GR/s3485/2023%2011%2025%20IMG_5588sm.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3485" data-original-width="877" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoGs1062rAFdxY3DcMDZ5WiRqKFdZ7azPrhNM8qYr63uPqmd8EEjXNiEUXKm1xjbf-Aw8WHyLdzWCc_XeqY5OOtakywwNRJ9NjE-vqtsLskL8_VpXwvcZZ8dYHA1OS_WJaUiltmkbvYO-9rM1PGor_5fPK0PAxGlDpmwhuDBFD_f4aWJJbk5UXtN1yB3GR/s320/2023%2011%2025%20IMG_5588sm.jpg" width="81" /></a></p></div></span></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: verdana;"><span> But I just need to add to my post of November 25th, to say that Amazon have at last put up logical prices, although the three books are not offered as a series unless you search for "The Connection Trilogy" or the ISBNs (see below). However, Book 1 is still at £4.05. This, as I've mentioned before, is because it's a previous edition with a different cover that they need to sell out before they will offer the latest edition (it says there are 14 left!). I have now created my author page in Author Central at Amazon (I hope. It's waiting for verification!) and that should give me the chance to make changes to the listings of my books. We shall see </span>… </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #073763; font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">Enough of that!</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #073763; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;"> </span></p></div><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> Now, as I'm sure you know, you can download samples of most books from Amazon, even if you aren't buying from their sites. In UK, for my <span>Book 1 the sample is <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boy-Two-Minds-Ancient-Connection-ebook/dp/B095SFG52D">here</a>, Book 2 <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Girl-Two-Worlds-Ancient-Connection/dp/1838413626/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=">here</a>, and Book 3 <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ancient-Connection-travel-Greece-Trilogy/dp/1838413642/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1701523485&sr=1-1">here</a></span><span>. (Amazon in other countries also provides samples.) </span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> But just to save you the trouble (or perhaps to show you it's </span><i>worth</i> the trouble ...), here is an edited extract from Chapter 1 in Book 3, describing some of Themistokles’ (Themis) and his wife’s reactions to the first day of their married life … (Frog, as you possibly know, is Themis' personal slave, shrewd partner in many an escapade, and an often under-rated doggerel poet (;-).)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Themistokles opened his eyes …</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Birds were calling to greet the dawn. Two green eyes, long-lashed and almond-shaped, gazed at him with unwavering adoration – and was that … triumph? </span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">His wife! </span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">His new, beautiful, young, headstrong, unsuitable (according to his mother), perfect (according to him), wife, was finally beside him. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">‘At last,’ she whispered. ‘I’ve been awake for ages. I was watching you sleep. You dribble, you know.’</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Themistokles felt he would explode with joy. ‘And you don’t?’ he countered. Their wedding night had all but undone the plaits and decorations of her unruly, chestnut-brown hair. He reached out and stroked her cheek, softer than the breast of a song-thrush.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #073763;">… The day continues, each of them dealing with different urgent matters elsewhere, until …</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">In the courtyard, he saw his bride at the top of the stairs to the women’s rooms, looking down at him. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">He ran up the first few steps to meet her, excited by the thought of her reaction to his next gift. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">But her expression stopped him dead. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">‘What’s this?’ he said, backing down a step. ‘Don’t look at me like that. Tell me what’s wrong. If you need something else, we’ll get it.’</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">She was clenching her fists to control her temper. ‘I have found something that needs explanation,’ she said deliberately. She turned briskly, her long, married-woman’s robe swishing round her ankles.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">He followed her into his workroom. It had once been his mother’s weaving room and now was where he made his colours and stored his painting materials, pictures and sketches. No one except Frog came in here with him. His jaw tensed with anger. ‘What were you doing in here?’ he asked, keeping his voice even. ‘This isn’t one of the women’s rooms anymore.’</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">She stopped in front of the table where a painting on a thin board was propped up and covered. ‘I thought we’d shown each other everything we’d made,’ she said. ‘But you never showed me this.’ She pulled the flimsy cloth off and stood back.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">In the picture, a nymph knelt by a pool among sparse rocks and shrubs, under an empty sky. A twisted tree leant over part of the pool. The nymph was wearing a strange kind of loincloth and a tight bodice that revealed the exact shape of her breasts and waist. The style was not like the vase paintings or murals that Themis did for money. It was more fluid, with subtler colours. The nymph had very short, light brown hair and a child-like profile. She was looking into the mirror-smooth pool at her reflection. But it wasn’t a reflection of her own face that she was gazing at. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #274e13;">It was the face of Themis himself.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><br /></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZwEmxb_OsJwwNePIKYhk1KNP9NMAvb6YkrLdEJkINNPNB3cGpHJGB1pmgReMJsw5Y3_vVtKWrF7k-7AUPOe4Cshl4dmFOVaQbh4GxbO8S9CTrPnYCSpfFCCI8JUmu_B75LQZFibfprseyKYmMnblyycL5J48iHGmdaKBXn1-jrNxriRYVAKlO3eJRWrEG/s2872/IMG_2049%202sm.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2872" data-original-width="2206" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZwEmxb_OsJwwNePIKYhk1KNP9NMAvb6YkrLdEJkINNPNB3cGpHJGB1pmgReMJsw5Y3_vVtKWrF7k-7AUPOe4Cshl4dmFOVaQbh4GxbO8S9CTrPnYCSpfFCCI8JUmu_B75LQZFibfprseyKYmMnblyycL5J48iHGmdaKBXn1-jrNxriRYVAKlO3eJRWrEG/s320/IMG_2049%202sm.jpg" width="246" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #073763;"> Some scenes seem to write themselves and others need a long gestation. For the latter, I write and rewrite, leave it for weeks, rewrite again. During this process for the above, I found some relevant photos that helped. These are three of them ...</span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFQ2YqARslUU7XeFBv7wGyrrQJqJTe8FtXzh2IcJdFLOw09uLOOabGVdsVZxNovFHBk8bwCdDmQlTqEDDbYqmXqvcBznAlGxE-TT_gL3lVrU7JBKl8QK9bN0z67czmqshBpSwuVujHHaWurgKJm6uhXSP6oZ8TrprGUmdZyKMSczoPnHTwUZTiERyMCvVH/s3112/IMG_1851sm.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3112" data-original-width="1056" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFQ2YqARslUU7XeFBv7wGyrrQJqJTe8FtXzh2IcJdFLOw09uLOOabGVdsVZxNovFHBk8bwCdDmQlTqEDDbYqmXqvcBznAlGxE-TT_gL3lVrU7JBKl8QK9bN0z67czmqshBpSwuVujHHaWurgKJm6uhXSP6oZ8TrprGUmdZyKMSczoPnHTwUZTiERyMCvVH/s320/IMG_1851sm.jpg" width="109" /></span></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbed4JPFWIN56wC5TWfWNpLW4zrr_v4d74OEfXZ0gZdVaiRkNJcGpVkjOoWEJ3zR5W0Htg3i7kSY9s8XGey-ssFPOE-4gEx39NY4_1uh2STFBZl-j1rEIxe39s__Tp_yEBIJYfvYPKZTgWJPR2DEVJC2U5nm_rolxpnE9ZLIoCxsfQRe8keCpzuJJgOfvG/s3256/IMG_1853sm.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3256" data-original-width="2442" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbed4JPFWIN56wC5TWfWNpLW4zrr_v4d74OEfXZ0gZdVaiRkNJcGpVkjOoWEJ3zR5W0Htg3i7kSY9s8XGey-ssFPOE-4gEx39NY4_1uh2STFBZl-j1rEIxe39s__Tp_yEBIJYfvYPKZTgWJPR2DEVJC2U5nm_rolxpnE9ZLIoCxsfQRe8keCpzuJJgOfvG/s320/IMG_1853sm.jpg" width="240" /></span></a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0BgdDRvriUl1cFkiPBzvr-_LigPM-WiVRREqkoFQuR04cCmS8_F5UgoZdzcEjxpQ96wivS_uu1w6uT3xSS7AY7Mus9nFOfz0k08uvtb_ZHoo8ieU3cfT0B_Jjo-3wZj-hrrIcP1eDlm7uJCbxSwQOBSy-i80mSED5eqycw25KiEIpf4hF_tF3WwyDcj0n/s3256/IMG_1853sm.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><p></p></div></span></span><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #073763;">This pool among rocks and trees is a typical scene from near the source of many Greek rivers. With little rainfall much of the year, </span><span style="color: #073763; text-indent: 11.3px;">the pools have almost no current of water through them and so can be mirror smooth. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #073763; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #073763; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #073763; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #073763; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #073763; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">These two photos are of the controversial caryatid at the British Museum and illustrate clothes and hairstyle for a young women on a formal occasion around the time of my story.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #073763; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="color: #073763; text-indent: 11.3px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">There was, then as now, a living to be made by being the best hair plaiter, using the most intricate designs, especially for weddings and other formal occasions.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0a2850; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0a2850; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0a2850; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">There's an illustration of how to wear a similar chiton (dress) in my post of November 12th, 2012.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #073763; 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font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d3f81; font-family: Verdana; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All photographs © Julia M Newsome unless otherwise credited.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><br /></p><p><br /></p><br /><br />J M Newsomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439887084973766257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680482127143109865.post-25948486019848198952023-11-25T12:20:00.006+00:002023-12-17T11:35:52.245+00:00The whole trilogy at last ... and a request<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">It’s a year and a half since I posted anything here. And this will be </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148); color: #0b5394;">mainly </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">information for potential buyers rather than a blog chat. So unless you are here to learn about buying one or more of these books, I suggest you skip it! There are far more important things in this world at present to focus on.</span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiShCytoh8k3prjFplM45zWM4Y_9WI8UhWiQMSRSoVYS4sqZuX3SOyg731xKXYpj4bfxoeTjMuzOqpkksP6mbeKJIeH86K_k9yDTm1SR4FmnilUDVl_K8jWnDMyo2Bb1Pd8t8wC2cZzUOT8UbUYp53k8JxmmNm25WZdYEVp00tB4qaWlnNJZw_JIB0OFBi" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiShCytoh8k3prjFplM45zWM4Y_9WI8UhWiQMSRSoVYS4sqZuX3SOyg731xKXYpj4bfxoeTjMuzOqpkksP6mbeKJIeH86K_k9yDTm1SR4FmnilUDVl_K8jWnDMyo2Bb1Pd8t8wC2cZzUOT8UbUYp53k8JxmmNm25WZdYEVp00tB4qaWlnNJZw_JIB0OFBi=w329-h247" width="329" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Meanwhile, in the years it's taken to get all three books written and published, t</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148); color: #0b5394;">here have been lots of comparatively tiny hiccups and delays in the process.</span><span style="color: #0b5394;"> So I felt it was better not to write anything at all, rather than a series of petty complaints! But my beta readers, and Kate, who designed the covers, and Fliss, who proofread and painted the iconic medallions, were always on hand and enthusiastic, seeing me through frustration after frustration, a Book 3 publication date that could not be pinned down, and a launch that could not happen in the end. </span></span><div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Thank you all.</span></span><div><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">For now, I would just like to ask any of my readers who is also enthusiastic about “Time travel to Ancient Greece” to buy one or more of the E-books (available at approximately a third of the print price), read it/them, and review it/them if you feel strongly enough. This will help my on-going, rather amateur marketing efforts immeasurably. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The situation with the print versions at present is that, without any reviews and almost no orders through book shops or Amazon as yet, delivery times in UK are being given by Waterstones and others as up to 5 weeks! However, the print titles do appear on their websites and on those of the wholesalers who supply your local bookshop (as far as I can discover). On other Amazons, like Germany, Canada and Australia, delivery times differ widely, while in the USA Amazon delivery is 3-5 days. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, I'm encouraged to be told that the trilogy would make a fine gift for fans of 'ancient worlds'. But please see below concerning Book 1 on Amazon UK (only - not other Amazons or UK bookshops), and please note that, in spite of repeatedly being informed, as yet they have not caught up with the fact that the third book of the trilogy is out and connected with the other two. It still describes them as 1 and 2 of 2! But I've set up my Author Central page on Amazon UK and am expecting eventually to be allowed to reorganise their listings of my books.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">As for me, in spite of the above, it’s still a great treat to have copies of all three to line up and gloat over! I can order and receive as many print copies as I have space for, with minimal delay. Perhaps I should set up a 'shop' here - if I can work out how ... </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrxmXOqUN9zfhigdDxDUDhx7PXGHXG4CIk6zOUS2kwbQgVUmpZlDAWrLMZ98exfena_vLbHLTEy150oeLRwTpgKzM5ra7iFXwvFMOOz7RcfSQJ_QsbBukkg_N3fyNITx9UQiWNNaJ0XViyThigtTWrCximC4GkpZTACcTzpdFL_IyyovStr8EHcj56cHdy" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrxmXOqUN9zfhigdDxDUDhx7PXGHXG4CIk6zOUS2kwbQgVUmpZlDAWrLMZ98exfena_vLbHLTEy150oeLRwTpgKzM5ra7iFXwvFMOOz7RcfSQJ_QsbBukkg_N3fyNITx9UQiWNNaJ0XViyThigtTWrCximC4GkpZTACcTzpdFL_IyyovStr8EHcj56cHdy=w221-h295" width="221" /></span></a></div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">None of which is, of course, a good sales pitch on my part! However, I must admit that this is not how I make my living. I write because I love writing, and the marketing and distribution have never been a priority. Unlike the extremely capable and efficient providers of marketing advice on social media, I don't feel driven to spend huge amounts of time and money setting up email lists, publicising on-line launches, offering freebies and doing blog tours all at once and immediately. I do intend to get round to some of these as time allows, and I certainly mean to keep posting on LinkedIn, the notorious X, and my professional FaceBook page. I am also making it known that I can offer author visits to local schools and bookshops in the New Year. And I want to give value for money, which is why I suggest the E-book at present - "enthralling" content without the costs of paper and printing!</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, thank you to all those who have already been sharing my news, including those who have read one or more of the books and have praised them. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span>Lastly, I’d like to draw attention to Book 1, </span><i>The Boy in Two Minds. </i><span>If you didn't already know, part of its story takes place partly during the 87th ancient Olympics (432 BCE), and therefore may be of particular interest in 2024, with the Paris Olympics (33rd of the modern era) in July. There are some old but complementary reviews of the original 2012 version (titled </span><i>The Boy with Two Heads</i><span>) still discoverable on </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0956810446?ref_=ast_author_ofdp" target="_blank"><span>this page</span></a><span> on Amazon</span><span>.</span><span> That edition is officially out of print and unobtainable now (although it’s almost the same text as the present Book 1). My thanks to those who reviewed it so kindly in those far off days. </span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPry1H8SGmkHq0PkY0PxbQtigP-EjzpXQEnH6DynsPtNj3_K6-85PFXeIURcB0_1kdAYIUpKulc1I-eE-bcA7nXqIj7QQ2Yc8csxh7zz9O1shZuIXUhD3CmKluvV-A57OLplMrzQKrF8xCLsWP1cjrYAVN5dVPjVcTitW_7BFNilnTUjBZuoCwLN0Ox5OS" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2116" data-original-width="3859" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPry1H8SGmkHq0PkY0PxbQtigP-EjzpXQEnH6DynsPtNj3_K6-85PFXeIURcB0_1kdAYIUpKulc1I-eE-bcA7nXqIj7QQ2Yc8csxh7zz9O1shZuIXUhD3CmKluvV-A57OLplMrzQKrF8xCLsWP1cjrYAVN5dVPjVcTitW_7BFNilnTUjBZuoCwLN0Ox5OS" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The three incarnations of <br />The Boy ...</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In fact, Book 1 has been through three incarnations, and Amazon UK are still offering the middle one shown here instead of the latest (it has the same ISBN). So if you only want to buy Book 1, I suggest you do so now, while their price for it is still less than £5! Once Amazon’s old stock is gone, the version with the new cover at the ‘normal’ price will be £13.99 or so. At least this shows that fiction about Ancient Greece and its Olympics is sales-worthy! Meanwhile, the whole trilogy with its coordinated covers, as in the photos above, is only available from a bookshop prepared to order it for you.</span><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhY64ybuBtGq9wEaa_P3fcqwuiZNPK7YE9vTNrTDepYxj51XVJCUFvmLqNZoVARddhOSNX6L0RSVSgWLNVTDXhrtFe8TScMKBFsi4cchevRUbRzUCyWtgU4u5CCpfY2QQySL5z49Pyzry-aTBHMbnIQu3j2ZY01vEv8M0zSt0l1790acB65qV5pL412Kmtv" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3485" data-original-width="877" height="417" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhY64ybuBtGq9wEaa_P3fcqwuiZNPK7YE9vTNrTDepYxj51XVJCUFvmLqNZoVARddhOSNX6L0RSVSgWLNVTDXhrtFe8TScMKBFsi4cchevRUbRzUCyWtgU4u5CCpfY2QQySL5z49Pyzry-aTBHMbnIQu3j2ZY01vEv8M0zSt0l1790acB65qV5pL412Kmtv=w104-h417" width="104" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Thank you for reading this rather boring blog post. I’m working on a more interesting one next ... and it will be posted in less than 18 months.</span><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; 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font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Connection Trilogy</b></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Paperbacks: </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; 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font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #0d3f81; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div><div></div></div></div></div>J M Newsomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439887084973766257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680482127143109865.post-46491295715470257262022-07-13T11:53:00.004+01:002023-12-17T11:38:52.635+00:00The Ancients are not forgotten in Corinth<div class="separator"><div class="separator" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator"><p style="background-color: white; clear: left; float: left; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times;">Dear Reader, the outside world seems to continue on its alarming road to self-destruction but, I have to admit, I've had an exciting and at times wonderful few months. I managed to get both Books 1 and 2 published as e-books on Kindle in early May. Then the rest of May and most of June were spent in Greece with a complex agenda including</span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times;"> </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">a family wedding and visits to locations that come into </span><i style="color: #0b5394;">An Ancient Connection</i><span style="color: #0b5394;">. The former was deep in the Mani countryside, the latter around Corinth and the Peloponnese, some of which I have visited before and posted about.</span></span></p></div><p style="font-family: Times; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6IhkekZEMg6RWhY9B8YhnUz57vGR4t47kfdBlqW-3zT9s59YTlThRIP0EVRHY7g6WI4GPV9NTxoL9tU8hcosACi2Qdma5y3PgPLNW0eHf5F2Le623-Pt5V2tgvxwjKrVwaq5isMnMj2Qfe06u0zpOKaCH0aMD-2Z2aawdgSsbL-HQrjpIuspXuKrTuA/s4032/IMG_6963sm.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="clear: left; color: #0b5394; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6IhkekZEMg6RWhY9B8YhnUz57vGR4t47kfdBlqW-3zT9s59YTlThRIP0EVRHY7g6WI4GPV9NTxoL9tU8hcosACi2Qdma5y3PgPLNW0eHf5F2Le623-Pt5V2tgvxwjKrVwaq5isMnMj2Qfe06u0zpOKaCH0aMD-2Z2aawdgSsbL-HQrjpIuspXuKrTuA/w320-h240/IMG_6963sm.jpg" width="320" /></span></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">As you may know, the ancient city of Corinth (Korinthos) was a short distance inland on its plain, linked to its two ports of Lechaion to the north on the Gulf of Corinth, and Kenchreai to the south on the Saronic Gulf, by a network of roads. It was much changed by the Romans. Its acropolis, Akrokorinthos, on the high, rocky hill further back from the coast, was always a strong natural fortress. It dominates the skyline and, throughout its history, often contained a small town within its walls. At its highest point, a famous temple to Aphrodite was built in 5th century BCE, now utterly ruined and almost invisible. </span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4q7EYxhIV1-ytUJ3JD3xYjUSX48MWW1Sslk2alf7Z2OBnWp3qWTweE9qja0jAXWTBi7Zcf4VL-XIJ8cecbIlJRXt-pC511WA-A9GjqVbw6EPqleAdtT8TsLw6ktT53IEIsurf17FkUg9586Dv6xyPUuVrenqDPCtL_woryKE_bN8BdMOUgD1LaBWDZg/s3588/IMG_0246sm.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2755" data-original-width="3588" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4q7EYxhIV1-ytUJ3JD3xYjUSX48MWW1Sslk2alf7Z2OBnWp3qWTweE9qja0jAXWTBi7Zcf4VL-XIJ8cecbIlJRXt-pC511WA-A9GjqVbw6EPqleAdtT8TsLw6ktT53IEIsurf17FkUg9586Dv6xyPUuVrenqDPCtL_woryKE_bN8BdMOUgD1LaBWDZg/w320-h246/IMG_0246sm.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;">View from the entrance gate to the fortress of Akrokorinthos.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwaeOnjE4XJHCFaawtiurXERc4_o8Ou3OEoUzOMRvVRB-epkEvLD41KwgKEtmNjLnfg0fOvv6E_O5EfKf1sqx2hzodYivyb1gvCCWmMfiHFlHD4M29kweIifRky6JpKoRqJlTKLKLQuUYCvj_rz7zgyxjcUV9rALJQ1od1XLCmL7r7PZrVlgTrHT60zg/s4032/IMG_0322sm.jpg" style="clear: right; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwaeOnjE4XJHCFaawtiurXERc4_o8Ou3OEoUzOMRvVRB-epkEvLD41KwgKEtmNjLnfg0fOvv6E_O5EfKf1sqx2hzodYivyb1gvCCWmMfiHFlHD4M29kweIifRky6JpKoRqJlTKLKLQuUYCvj_rz7zgyxjcUV9rALJQ1od1XLCmL7r7PZrVlgTrHT60zg/w150-h200/IMG_0322sm.jpg" width="150" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;"><span>Remains of the Temple to Aphrodite</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1ZNBMolpmBKKGnMNL3tItZuO6zspzYCBikST9ELsjst_leHGbU5jjdiNaYIvdmFFxrzzr47aZz0OzxVhEABUVeYXS3LNXlmGaTimIpCR5o26BGYR9XAA8oYd7iCUYxYcQ_FYgSK7UZGIleZ9x4DPpGiuITttiUfGFqIkRsJrUWYcVRSxisIvg0KA76Q/s2069/IMG_4863sm.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2069" data-original-width="1768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1ZNBMolpmBKKGnMNL3tItZuO6zspzYCBikST9ELsjst_leHGbU5jjdiNaYIvdmFFxrzzr47aZz0OzxVhEABUVeYXS3LNXlmGaTimIpCR5o26BGYR9XAA8oYd7iCUYxYcQ_FYgSK7UZGIleZ9x4DPpGiuITttiUfGFqIkRsJrUWYcVRSxisIvg0KA76Q/w274-h320/IMG_4863sm.jpg" width="274" /></span></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;">Modern Corinth is on the sea a little to the east of ancient Lechaion. It has been badly damaged by earthquakes, particularly in the last couple of centuries and has been rebuilt many times. But the Ancients are not forgotten. Pegasus flies above the wide square between the pedestrian shopping area and the wharfs. Aphrodite patrols a broad street of cafes and eateries. Heracles rests after his labours in a seaside carpark. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQfp-Kc2q79uY7WKZmHK1Q4Ewla9MJ1olTdP21C6kCcjEIGjMx_GHidDQHZzHZWwbklFvU1KmfMJfJjqYKsbCoWVUlAc41T8XOADUosn7o4ob3U06UpDjv9XD1okonRRFyPyIRvlIkacHhB9ySI8b_v0xx7W3khS5pTQTLQft5RhWOOAYyoy6KHDkgyw/s4032/IMG_2793sm.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQfp-Kc2q79uY7WKZmHK1Q4Ewla9MJ1olTdP21C6kCcjEIGjMx_GHidDQHZzHZWwbklFvU1KmfMJfJjqYKsbCoWVUlAc41T8XOADUosn7o4ob3U06UpDjv9XD1okonRRFyPyIRvlIkacHhB9ySI8b_v0xx7W3khS5pTQTLQft5RhWOOAYyoy6KHDkgyw/w291-h388/IMG_2793sm.jpg" width="291" /></a></div></span></span><p style="font-family: Times; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh59Z381hzkpELW9R6N1S6MykZw3Qp39RYqygRvp3E-68rDoYldmiWc4lHFTg7S2ydNNvvaEih3hVcBJKdB03v7E5lfPvOKhTd4HNzcq6yCRGx8SnMwew0ZAfWEtqEfASxbOfws2k6jWznqZFyph7pj0Mt9Z3p_6MDfaSehr12LnvFfiKQuXJSEi44PiQ/s1685/IMG_3931sm.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1685" data-original-width="1213" height="385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh59Z381hzkpELW9R6N1S6MykZw3Qp39RYqygRvp3E-68rDoYldmiWc4lHFTg7S2ydNNvvaEih3hVcBJKdB03v7E5lfPvOKhTd4HNzcq6yCRGx8SnMwew0ZAfWEtqEfASxbOfws2k6jWznqZFyph7pj0Mt9Z3p_6MDfaSehr12LnvFfiKQuXJSEi44PiQ/w277-h385/IMG_3931sm.jpg" width="277" /></span></a></p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p style="font-family: Times; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">As for the actual book in which these places feature, I’m revising the text ready for readers to comment. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">I have also started to send out press releases and put posts on my social media platforms. I fi<span style="font-family: trebuchet;">nd I need to discip</span>line myself to spending just one hour per working day on this. Longer, and the writing doesn't get done!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">The paperbacks of Books 1 and 2 are now available for order from all good bookshops, while e-books and paperbacks are available from Amazon. However, at present, Amazon is selling-off very cheaply a previous print edition (<i>The Boy in Two Heads</i> as opposed to <i>The Boy in Two Minds</i>) with the old cover. Getting it withdrawn seems to be impossible, so a buyer who wants paperbacks that look like a set would do better to obtain them from elsewhere. There is no problem with Amazon’s e-books. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="font-family: Times; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">But it's summer!! And with swathes of colourful flowers and wide clear views, friends to meet, and/or walks to take in the long evenings after a day at my desk, it's the very best time of year for me!</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh68bqGmEM12aW7kPWJM8Wg7fmHJGjVCPSbhJtLWICvQjUf_auQ7cB3V2rQNIooju4hRlyOSTComlpzTppY4hRiRHfryZekB6jvQblTs83v6SEUXi-bbGT3N-8hLYE1X4YOLAR3hOmNU2c6Wu52CzseEmcr4Q7QVfrn8XjvVfo9H98bmNUQxceyXTGekg/s4032/IMG_8084sm.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh68bqGmEM12aW7kPWJM8Wg7fmHJGjVCPSbhJtLWICvQjUf_auQ7cB3V2rQNIooju4hRlyOSTComlpzTppY4hRiRHfryZekB6jvQblTs83v6SEUXi-bbGT3N-8hLYE1X4YOLAR3hOmNU2c6Wu52CzseEmcr4Q7QVfrn8XjvVfo9H98bmNUQxceyXTGekg/w270-h203/IMG_8084sm.jpg" width="270" /></a></div><span style="clear: left; color: #0b5394; float: left; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgaG0PJmBgUMFhFNnJfCdR9E2MHeDESRZQ7ePN6-rfxK21iWsUEjFtAyM6i06kLXQTgimaNSjiXfajbtqNR9qulMcU3uWJia7_8sG_KcVF_ALs_eVsO6dolM45YqYThSytD6XfbqIqespnGLPVKLn0yjHHxmLEmM_UQQsgaC2fZGRBs7UbR-m586f_sQ/w271-h204/IMG_8086sm.jpg" width="271" /> </span><br /></div><p style="font-family: Times; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Times; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">I hope it is for you, too, dear reader, however much we fear for the future in so many ways.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;">All photographs © Julia M Newsome unless otherwise credited.</span></div><p></p><p style="font-family: Times; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>J M Newsomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439887084973766257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680482127143109865.post-54962152616635845252022-03-12T09:59:00.000+00:002022-03-12T09:59:00.092+00:00Sunflowers and snowdrops<p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: medium;">Further to my post just before Christmas, <i>The Girl in Two Worlds - Time travel to Ancient Athens</i>, came out on March 1st, 2022, 10 years to the day from the publication date of The Boy with Two Heads, as it was then titled, on February 29th, 2012. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">However, there was no fanfare, partly because the print version still seems to be unavailable from the usual outlets (it will probably take another week or two) and also because the e-book is not ready. But it was one step in my slow progress towards having both print and revised e-books on sale. I've</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148); color: #0b5394;"> made a start on the necessary text 'translations' of The Boy and The Girl into ePub files for the ebooks and yet another revision of Book 3 is in train.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The covers have been refined,</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148); color: #0b5394;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148); color: #0b5394;">though the Book 3 cover is still a draft</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">. My thanks to Kate (design) and Fliss (art) for creating such gorgeous results!</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2518" data-original-width="1635" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi52N1SRs1KNcUtau-rZjrgdKlx1cwMETraZ_-bAp2TktrpqIQvXwkVhRZPEm25d0NoGit3hWJeLRZByHGJyPHxTmSxZSi3LZTlnevxuLkoHDYoDIlRncJE_sf9hWHfb2cW4mtHT8x9iGpNttZYggQBAVi8ehK4Rsx7-bfcTI3A9uBJjimW2Em0l5lzJg=w178-h274" width="178" /> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEia1aV9ooG81OEaWYXW_P30LDfsc6kW08DNEtkKT57gohNAAA_4pZ9kpHwryc2eyZp_d-27WJg1O5pjqmOiHdOi7yNf00ypnuzbsmpxt0HmIemxvhBrl_S_J-oNBMh4Y1j1E9C-Yta3geb2os4dgGbeYL-035c7aiuLM5DB6ht56bSl6VTYksfxrX7CuA=s2552" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2552" data-original-width="1635" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEia1aV9ooG81OEaWYXW_P30LDfsc6kW08DNEtkKT57gohNAAA_4pZ9kpHwryc2eyZp_d-27WJg1O5pjqmOiHdOi7yNf00ypnuzbsmpxt0HmIemxvhBrl_S_J-oNBMh4Y1j1E9C-Yta3geb2os4dgGbeYL-035c7aiuLM5DB6ht56bSl6VTYksfxrX7CuA=w181-h273" width="181" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpe5qPofFp4tB4qvDzhV220uLXSFRpWHMUi1LGVYIuL1PqRfDcRD-EjN7DXUuGUeVefjK5oaBeTqLvv_2tFQ2UOmCCSFMZD-qPHyrD73nJwb4Rcs0kCR9FoD9nBvfmE8wdXZx5_DiM-Fib4acCtJkfAbbEGdfMdjylbCSTIjUY3oCyhvOdPL6cyBpzkQ=s631" style="clear: right; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="401" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpe5qPofFp4tB4qvDzhV220uLXSFRpWHMUi1LGVYIuL1PqRfDcRD-EjN7DXUuGUeVefjK5oaBeTqLvv_2tFQ2UOmCCSFMZD-qPHyrD73nJwb4Rcs0kCR9FoD9nBvfmE8wdXZx5_DiM-Fib4acCtJkfAbbEGdfMdjylbCSTIjUY3oCyhvOdPL6cyBpzkQ=w180-h274" width="180" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: medium;">My present blurb for the whole trilogy is this:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: medium;">"The precarious connection between Themistokles, son of Kallistos of ancient Athens and Suzanne Short of Penrith in modern Cumbria UK, was the result of freak accidents. It seemed to begin and end in 432 BCE / 2010 CE when Suzanne experienced so much of Themistocles' visit to Olympia. But now, in 418 BCE / 2017 CE, the connection is back. Athens is threatened by Sparta from without and traitors from within. Suzanne, now a student and athlete at Lancaster University, is a fascinated by helpless witness as Themistokles tries to save his city and his family."</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: medium;">But now our own world of 2022 CE has convulsed again - far more violently in the last few weeks than it did with the first Covid-19 lockdown two years ago. Covid isolation was what brought me back to this project, but now I often find it impossible to concentrate on what seems to have become an inconsequential hobby. The horrors of Putin's invasion of non-aggressive Ukraine, and the uncertainty of where the resulting world-wide turmoil will lead, claim my (and most others', it seems) attention as often as I let them.</span></p><p style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #0b5394; text-decoration: none;">At present, of course, here in the UK, my life is not directly threatened. I</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">n 1944 my father's was, though. He was in southern China </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148); color: #0b5394;">with his Red Cross unit</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">,</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148); color: #0b5394;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148); color: #0b5394;">'walking out' ahead of the Japanese invasion. He</span><span style="color: #0b5394;"> wrote in his journal of the need to keep to the usual routines and standards wherever possible, however chaotic things get. So that's what I'm trying to do, whether The Connection Trilogy turns out to be </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">inconsequential or not. </span></span></p><p style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">At least Spring has </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148); color: #0b5394;">now </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">arrived with energy and hope. The courage and determination of Ukraine's extraordinary president, Volodymyr Zalenskyy, and his kick-ass compatriots is infectious.</span><span style="color: #0b5394; text-align: center;"> They are our buffer against unthinkable destruction and casualties, and their resolve seems to be bringing together other previously, and possibly dangerously, divided nations. Thank you, Ukraine.</span></span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRWCQovfPRqg0fyKhX5vAmuD4kXwVOJ530ySOFTnWi1a8d3NuBGhvXIakVX-DRwGHWhJ0wZiViv2xPgOrRjqbixZZo2SoSQ6f1wux2JXN3RuE-Iu9CYPXnK1xNdR55lM8sMEEYxB5gKz6xYhFjzSf9JtE-KXE8n5TBDuQsu34HwSn5rJmESwojDVSavQ=w200-h266" width="200" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgflCdQqVUDSgG8WuyhcEXIULiAb9ou0_spld8gzyxbBPkqg1Ljeewu_AjGaFWWYqoUnF1dik9dUgSfeqa3LyqgbLnnyqt324pkRKE7kff5rRbNKVyPFLxIKv95gWFtHw8Gl-jNM3PvJ_lTe9e1qxvlaIf55x-SS_dMQ-iUQzPMUeSpyYZFoBnEVxNUDA=s1600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgflCdQqVUDSgG8WuyhcEXIULiAb9ou0_spld8gzyxbBPkqg1Ljeewu_AjGaFWWYqoUnF1dik9dUgSfeqa3LyqgbLnnyqt324pkRKE7kff5rRbNKVyPFLxIKv95gWFtHw8Gl-jNM3PvJ_lTe9e1qxvlaIf55x-SS_dMQ-iUQzPMUeSpyYZFoBnEVxNUDA=w352-h264" width="352" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148); color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small; text-align: start;">All photographs © Julia M Newsome unless otherwise credited</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148); color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: left; color: black; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br /></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: left; color: black; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br /></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: left; color: black; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br /></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: left; color: black; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br /></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: left; color: black; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br /></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: left; color: black; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br /></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: left; color: black; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br /></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: left; color: black; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br /></p></div>J M Newsomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439887084973766257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680482127143109865.post-5707311287481959672021-12-24T10:20:00.000+00:002021-12-24T10:20:06.347+00:00A Boy, a Girl, two hats and some ships<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;"><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">In July, I wrote about how <i>The Boy With Two Heads</i> (originally published in 2012) has become Book 1 of The Connection Trilogy. I stated titles and timings, all of which I have since had to change (though not the ISBNs) - a lesson from my professional days that I'd forgotten: 'schedules are guides, not laws'. So the evolution</span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> of the trilogy continues, and this is an update on its progress.</span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;">Although I now wear two hats, the author’s and the publisher’s, unfortunately I have </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148); color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;">only </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;">one head (unlike the original title of my book!). And my one head is that of a perfectionist.</span> </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTgjg7TGMpdFav1pX72BKI__xrjNIVR-FcJDzj4BaBKhOwkn5_APsKW2U_mcGGv2cP46lwanuSSZT9P4QFIEuCjbjC-HpuWAWBGgtsrVN_Z3eqn3ZeV8MTcx7SsYBTDtBxFXmJxmjZDZW4NUAVHtMnvjZhAjvoSJT6sxMYtGWS1JvzJ5p3eg6JxqaZoQ=s3187" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1701" data-original-width="3187" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTgjg7TGMpdFav1pX72BKI__xrjNIVR-FcJDzj4BaBKhOwkn5_APsKW2U_mcGGv2cP46lwanuSSZT9P4QFIEuCjbjC-HpuWAWBGgtsrVN_Z3eqn3ZeV8MTcx7SsYBTDtBxFXmJxmjZDZW4NUAVHtMnvjZhAjvoSJT6sxMYtGWS1JvzJ5p3eg6JxqaZoQ=s320" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;">So the many enjoyable (to me, at least) processes involved in metamorphosing <i>The Boy with Two Heads</i> into <i>The Boy in Two Minds</i>, and preparing his sequels to be consistent as a trilogy, have been progressing rather slowly. Mind you, t</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148); color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;">his year, The Boy has gone through two title changes, one text revision, one cover change, and still awaits a tweak to his styling. T</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;">his is truly ‘learning through doing’. And the 'doing' is very different from when I was a professional editor and later publisher in an ‘in house’ department in the last century!</span></span><p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;">I have also been preparing the other two books in the trilogy. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148); color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;">These are the three draft covers … My enduring thanks to Kate, my collaborator on these. We will eventually get there!</span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEuoGRxFdAAyinUf5PfY3v9DYIIiDIdH1nNlYH3liCudNj0qD9oEl_ohoUf4juTs8Vh1AGgTRqiPGKbNdDtUNqTyzidbtjxwRIcOo5lTcGOVIY527kSy1nL3gTCZodN8gLCuIT2GddQBD7EHreI4ysnvz5PvsYJbFK1MQPOe0EpgEzTc1aT2Li3eUPtA=s626" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="397" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEuoGRxFdAAyinUf5PfY3v9DYIIiDIdH1nNlYH3liCudNj0qD9oEl_ohoUf4juTs8Vh1AGgTRqiPGKbNdDtUNqTyzidbtjxwRIcOo5lTcGOVIY527kSy1nL3gTCZodN8gLCuIT2GddQBD7EHreI4ysnvz5PvsYJbFK1MQPOe0EpgEzTc1aT2Li3eUPtA=w167-h263" width="167" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEie7sgHqjqPKBIvagaVSn2H69Kg7VkX8dk02mCLDs5tOkCz-kxAb0ExNmJyc8LKtGdjqfDvWPuysdDQLWFDAuEgNScXu-uvUoiMFeHX7OMFdH_HF5vFVg_SzPOyGYmQgJ4x6bLniFFVBxA4lNlFfmz_6UfGEZu1Mr-6aYXp_YsVZy62EeiLYBSSyzdStg=s631" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="410" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEie7sgHqjqPKBIvagaVSn2H69Kg7VkX8dk02mCLDs5tOkCz-kxAb0ExNmJyc8LKtGdjqfDvWPuysdDQLWFDAuEgNScXu-uvUoiMFeHX7OMFdH_HF5vFVg_SzPOyGYmQgJ4x6bLniFFVBxA4lNlFfmz_6UfGEZu1Mr-6aYXp_YsVZy62EeiLYBSSyzdStg=w170-h262" width="170" /></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWdgfIZtYLN-TskC9Ymed4MgWrWay9_3KnLpNiitDDXzs9oGL5gkLnQaxlbfcpLTcRBnAr-OE7uxmcs7dlfncOjR1vWKBZhSvk9FsVshPc6y0t0Ju38ZVI-3vxOVD6jYRmO1lOzz4B4gS5zx052OrF3X1VsCpqSB_tZhQ921ZNx37M0oXfNgF5Im6x5g=s615" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="409" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWdgfIZtYLN-TskC9Ymed4MgWrWay9_3KnLpNiitDDXzs9oGL5gkLnQaxlbfcpLTcRBnAr-OE7uxmcs7dlfncOjR1vWKBZhSvk9FsVshPc6y0t0Ju38ZVI-3vxOVD6jYRmO1lOzz4B4gS5zx052OrF3X1VsCpqSB_tZhQ921ZNx37M0oXfNgF5Im6x5g=w176-h264" width="176" /></a></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">My thanks, too, to those who have bought The Boy in his present state as print and ebook, both of which will be marginally (literally!) updated in the new year. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipVqL75z8UMIUrn6s2maVhFt5KOds0RuY3zcy1lh5cn3gUMjkp-gG88yIxks502Wbao4eqdwhGPlIHSFAajJqpEJtCuOAOlcGEVzXzOiLkPWsvGeTtq1BkWbonwfmaKkBvTaruGwclp3qpGLrwIwnoApgoMNuF0-UOBItH1HW4eYEj_V435ENZmPi28A=w287-h215" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="287" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;">During</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;"> the autumn, my single head and mind were distracted from writing and publishing because at last I was able to travel to Greece. There I experienced the joy and excitement of the birth of a new family member,</span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> and I <span>managed</span> to visit a couple of locations that come into the story in Book 3, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraion_of_Perachora" target="_blank">Heraion of Perahora</a> (lots of guessing as to what it was really like), and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diolkos" target="_blank">Diolkos</a> (an amazing remnant of an ancient 'railway'!).</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3NnwPp9nS3tqq2sWIZ9Lb22tScCVhu0HSV0S8zjR_Xg1jK1tlXwR6TT7Lzwju_9oj4Mq6y-OAXuxazIjaDjRaIycSMJEY9jZNH5cEhBoBWDxBt7Pj670GEebrnTjLQrFTKhgXtQMXH4zDDUeyKiWx9rlBHA9mg3OtIplfQcTn05YHQrfNcXKIBI7Y1w=s3264" style="caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148); clear: right; display: inline; float: right; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3NnwPp9nS3tqq2sWIZ9Lb22tScCVhu0HSV0S8zjR_Xg1jK1tlXwR6TT7Lzwju_9oj4Mq6y-OAXuxazIjaDjRaIycSMJEY9jZNH5cEhBoBWDxBt7Pj670GEebrnTjLQrFTKhgXtQMXH4zDDUeyKiWx9rlBHA9mg3OtIplfQcTn05YHQrfNcXKIBI7Y1w=s320" width="240" /></a></p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The Diolkos is the drag-way used by ships </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">along </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">approximately the same line as the Corinth Canal from around 600 BCE. What a sight, to see a ship gliding on land up the gentle gradient (hauled by oxen perhaps?), and then 'floating' down the other side, back to the sea!</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3avinnXpeX5VnVXyjsoaCsB9nhugelJdBf2UytGLPGOZ8qY-5J1N0n3budRDd6xP2Zb9syVwWCqaxoXzpEWLZiv_jO7MHJUQS3EXzL6UUz1nWc7i4pk3N6Ih90t6pDdjYZObuYqDW3lxCULYyX_L6QgGjgwd_viODiMdZTdnMSiX-5PYOpSCWNWU2Hg=s3026" style="clear: left; display: inline; font-family: verdana; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2148" data-original-width="3026" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3avinnXpeX5VnVXyjsoaCsB9nhugelJdBf2UytGLPGOZ8qY-5J1N0n3budRDd6xP2Zb9syVwWCqaxoXzpEWLZiv_jO7MHJUQS3EXzL6UUz1nWc7i4pk3N6Ih90t6pDdjYZObuYqDW3lxCULYyX_L6QgGjgwd_viODiMdZTdnMSiX-5PYOpSCWNWU2Hg=w217-h154" width="217" /></a> </span></p><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">(Nowadays, nearby, a reproduction Poseidon stands guard by a modern basketball court, 'protecting' the area around the western mouth of the Canal. Surely, in its heyday, he had a temple at each end of the Diolkos?</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">)</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAITIH0glMn4ahDqiWZM6kpP3wZmI270ps6UWn4wXWF5R8SUBQoNnd3BQPXFZtqPCZle9X9_mldfj4kUnF7P-M8H4KGgWFVqWx7C7JNjl0e3YUaOwmHPn9If-leoSA1MJbdKSWAQs5QQclspO9ujB5BWYbUtrAZgzwDjFGSn2cEHCbCR9VD8LZWEH3uw=s875" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="875" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAITIH0glMn4ahDqiWZM6kpP3wZmI270ps6UWn4wXWF5R8SUBQoNnd3BQPXFZtqPCZle9X9_mldfj4kUnF7P-M8H4KGgWFVqWx7C7JNjl0e3YUaOwmHPn9If-leoSA1MJbdKSWAQs5QQclspO9ujB5BWYbUtrAZgzwDjFGSn2cEHCbCR9VD8LZWEH3uw=s320" width="320" /><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></a></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;">So my fictional Boy and Girl often wait in line for my attention. And although </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148);"><i><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span>The Girl in Two Worlds</span></span></span></i><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;">'s </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">original July publishing date has been pushed into 2022, she is well on her way - on a trireme, no less!<br /></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFZzSzYwQvUMcdpDpaGE_oLhMEDwgA01VDFII2Y75mRJ_9EffXQGLM4G0XuBpVLYYdcdMZalW9RN018c5b6Wsy_OQBUlwEa5MqINjzMkYXkG1QzhBFhTAOn1U0pNK-468JdlzYa7K_H4Fh8i1bBOC54xc8ThIbAKFOmltrCz79wx9paL8S0NhHH374PA=s817" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="817" data-original-width="564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFZzSzYwQvUMcdpDpaGE_oLhMEDwgA01VDFII2Y75mRJ_9EffXQGLM4G0XuBpVLYYdcdMZalW9RN018c5b6Wsy_OQBUlwEa5MqINjzMkYXkG1QzhBFhTAOn1U0pNK-468JdlzYa7K_H4Fh8i1bBOC54xc8ThIbAKFOmltrCz79wx9paL8S0NhHH374PA=s320" width="221" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">from </span><a href="http://greekerthanthegreeks.com" style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;" target="_blank">greekerthanthegreeks.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;">A different kind of ship has ushered in the celebrations for the winter solstice and Christmas</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148); color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;">i</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148); color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;">n Greece</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;"> for centuries. Traditionally, decorative ships appear in early December (this was in Aristotelous Square in Thessaloniki</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;"> some years ago) and similar boats have been decorated in homes and villages since ancient times, often now alongside the more modern Christmas tree.</span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;">This one is here to bring my readers my best wishes for your joy rather than frustration over the holidays in these bewildering times. </span></span></p></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;">I wish you a joyfully Merry Christmas, and t</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana;">hank you for reading!</span></span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p> </p>J M Newsomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439887084973766257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680482127143109865.post-7340911239411737962021-07-25T17:05:00.017+01:002021-07-27T15:18:17.942+01:00<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #00e5ff; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">The Boy is Back - and he's not alone!</span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; margin: 0cm 12pt 12pt 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c8BgsH-p-aw/YP18nvz7KSI/AAAAAAAABpk/OYkOBakZFL8Q__GDsbx9Wf5_2sMmDwumQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2038s.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="227" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c8BgsH-p-aw/YP18nvz7KSI/AAAAAAAABpk/OYkOBakZFL8Q__GDsbx9Wf5_2sMmDwumQCLcBGAsYHQ/w302-h227/IMG_2038s.jpg" width="302" /></a></div><span style="color: #0b5394;">He’s now “<b><i>in</i></b> Two Heads”, and part of a trilogy. But </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148); color: #0b5394;">Themistokles'</span><span style="color: #0b5394;"> story of involvement in the Olympics of 432 BCE and how he got there is the same. </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">Back in 2012, I believed his and Suzanne's novel was a one-off, but they had other ideas! As time went on, Themistokles kept ‘telling’ me bits of his later life. At first, I just wrote them down as separate incidents. Then Suzanne began to do the same, and gradually I had another novel. Then a third. So I may not have been posting here for a while, but I have been ‘listening’ and writing, rewriting, researching and, until last March, travelling.</span></span><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12pt 12pt 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #0b5394;">Then, around this time last year, by chance I saw a tweet from Caroline Lawrence (@CarolineLawrenc, millions-selling author of children’s books set in Ancient Rome, and Athens) about </span><i style="color: #0b5394;">The Boy with Two Heads</i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #0b5394;">. It said, “Ooh! Another #timeslip to #Athens novel for kids! Written by @JuliaMNewsome in 2012, this one has lots about the Olympic Games. I’m loving it so far!” And there was a picture of my book. I was thrilled! (Although The Boy was not written for kids under 12, nor is only about Athens.)</span></p></span><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #0b5394;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xh3S9k8u5qw/YPw2plOFASI/AAAAAAAABpM/PVZ4AHsVlEIEEFGfuXWXQ8vXc56BXlZUACLcBGAsYHQ/s500/IMG_2028.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="416" height="161" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xh3S9k8u5qw/YPw2plOFASI/AAAAAAAABpM/PVZ4AHsVlEIEEFGfuXWXQ8vXc56BXlZUACLcBGAsYHQ/w134-h161/IMG_2028.jpeg" width="134" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: xx-small;">from the Amazon web site</span></td></tr></tbody></table>Caroline’s tweet gave me a boost. Even though her books are for a different age category, she is a world-wide best-selling writer (<a href="http://carolinelawrence.com">carolinelawrence.com</a>). So her interest and kind encouragement had me thinking seriously about naming the new stories, polishing them up and perhaps publishing them. </span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Because, once upon a time, before the internet, I was</span><span face="-webkit-standard, serif"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">a professional editor and publisher of textbooks. </span></span></span><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Surely, with the help of The Boy’s original publisher, Trifolium Books UK, I could learn how to do it myself with the new technology? It could be my COVID survival project! </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12pt 0cm 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #0b5394; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T2_0_5U2vfk/YP2NbevgKlI/AAAAAAAABp8/1s2p988n9Eo8SJiRDTQbXWrFZsfcAMdjQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/BB%2Blogo.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1284" data-original-width="2048" height="91" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T2_0_5U2vfk/YP2NbevgKlI/AAAAAAAABp8/1s2p988n9Eo8SJiRDTQbXWrFZsfcAMdjQCLcBGAsYHQ/w145-h91/BB%2Blogo.jpeg" style="cursor: move;" width="145" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Birkby Books</span><br /><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;">design: Connie Jensen</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #0b5394; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Thus, </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #0b5394;"><i>The Boy</i> <i>in</i><i> Two Heads</i>, and his two accompanying volumes, <i>The Girl in Two Minds</i> an</span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">d </span><i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Precarious Connections</span></i></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #0b5394;">, are coming out, one by one, under my new imprint, Birkby Books. At present, with Kate of Trifolium, we are working on visually linked covers, but The Boy’s revised text was ready early, so I brought him out in his old jacket to coincide with this year’s anomalous Olympics. The three books will make up The Connection Trilogy.</span></span><p></p></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T9v9K1oT9BU/YP2BRGA7y_I/AAAAAAAABpw/tmUQznphD-sIjreLG-_7jZG2kTloQn7QwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/_20210707_132945%2Bs.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1818" height="158" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T9v9K1oT9BU/YP2BRGA7y_I/AAAAAAAABpw/tmUQznphD-sIjreLG-_7jZG2kTloQn7QwCLcBGAsYHQ/w141-h158/_20210707_132945%2Bs.jpg" width="141" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: xx-small;">The Two Heads by Fliss Watts</span></td></tr></tbody></table>Themistokles and Suzanne have kept me company and been fascinating (though somewhat demanding) friends during this deeply disturbing time, for which I’m very grateful. Now they even have portraits ready to be incorporated into the new covers, thanks to Fliss Watts (instagram: @flisswatts, <a href="https://flisswtts1Wordpress.com">https://flisswtts1Wordpress.com</a>).<br /></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12pt 0cm 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12pt 0cm 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 12pt 0cm 0cm;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #0b5394;">If you are new to this blog and didn’t read the 2012 edition of The Boy, this is what </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(11, 83, 148); color: #0b5394;">some </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #0b5394;">readers said:</span></span></p><div><div><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"A very clever concept for time travel ... lots about the Olympic Games. I'm loving it ...!" <i>Caroline Lawrence</i> (see above).</span></div><div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"This book transported me effortlessly back to ancient Greece, vividly evoking its exotic sights, sounds and even smells. And it seems that young people's issues have hardly changed in 2,400 years!" <i>Marion Clarke</i>, fiction editor.</span></div><div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"A wonderful story which brings the ancient Olympics to vibrant life." <i>Philippa Harrison</i>, former Managing Director of Macmillan and Little, Brown UK.</span></div><div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"... extremely well written, highly believable and engaging ... the aspects of every day life in Ancient Greece are so cleverly and easily portrayed here." <i>Fiona Robson</i> on Goodreads.</span></div><div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"This was a very engaging read. Lovers of the grecian era will find it interesting and the blog is a good twist." <i>Prudence</i> on Amazon. (not this blog, the one in the book!)</span></div><div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">" ... a story on different levels, from different points of view. It brings ancient Greece to life, ... excellent ... well-researched ... well-written story." <i>Sally Katherine Bracher</i> on Amazon.</span></div><div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #990000; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">" ... enthralling read, I did not want to put the book down." <i>Bill</i> on Amazon Kindle.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>The Girl in Two Minds</i> will be out later this summer, and next year, the third book, at present titled <i>Precarious Connections</i> (unless I change my mind again, which I have done every day for months!). </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">If you are on Twitter or Instagram or any of the other wide-reaching platforms, please post a link to this blog, or better still, read the book and post a review! You will be mystified, amused, excited and enthralled. (At least, I was while I was writing it!) </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Thanks for reading! </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Please leave a comment or a review if you can.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>The Boy in Two Heads</i> ISBNs: </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">paperback 9781838413606</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">ebook 9781838413613</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">@JuliaMNewsome on Twitter</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">'J M Newsome, author' on FaceBook</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;">The appearance of this post is different on smart phones and tablets, but all the content seems to be there! </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;">All photographs © Julia M Newsome unless otherwise credited</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span></span></div><div><br /></div></div>J M Newsomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439887084973766257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680482127143109865.post-14246295586839197242015-04-28T13:31:00.001+01:002015-04-29T09:36:30.536+01:00Walking with the gods ..?<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Usgr6BzNXqo/VT6-gU_dzGI/AAAAAAAABek/Pgz0YpeWsOE/s1600/IMG_7365.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Usgr6BzNXqo/VT6-gU_dzGI/AAAAAAAABek/Pgz0YpeWsOE/s1600/IMG_7365.jpg" height="150" width="200" /></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Perhaps it's because <a href="http://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/">the Greek Gods</a> each represent facets of what makes people human that they are so easy to imagine. They influence the characters in the story I'm writing at present, so they naturally invade my own daily life!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Was it possible I was in company with an Arcadian <a href="http://www.classics.upenn.edu/myth/php/tools/dictionary.php?regexp=NYMPHS&method=standard">nymph</a> or two (all those flowers and the chattering river), or Artemis (riding the moon behind the ash tree), or even her brother Apollo (checking out the flocks of sheep perhaps, and sparking my brain into creativity)? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">The perfect weather gave me time and peace to 'feel' them all, and to </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">breathe the scents of spring and listen to the lambs and the birds. And while I walked, I </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">worked out the complex relationship between </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/J.-M.-Newsome/e/B0034NFDJ8/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1430222622&sr=1-2-ent">two of my characters</a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"> which had been confusing me. </span><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rvxxIsBRtHY/VPILif7tOqI/AAAAAAAABdU/UlmjRD30xhs/s1600/CIMG5621%2Bsm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rvxxIsBRtHY/VPILif7tOqI/AAAAAAAABdU/UlmjRD30xhs/s1600/CIMG5621%2Bsm.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">My novel <i><a href="http://www.trifolium.co.uk/page0/page27/page31/page32/index.html">The Boy with Two Heads</a></i> is three years old today. It was published on February 29th, 2012, the year of the London Olympics. To celebrate this, I have been putting 'shameless ads' on Twitter as listed below, quoting from <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13819048-the-boy-with-two-heads?from_search=true">Goodreads</a> and Amazon reviews. I can't say sales have been huge, but the five star reviews from people I've never met are a wonderful psychological boost. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">To change the subject, and as reported in previous years, March is the month for Ways With Words to bring their <a href="http://www.wayswithwords.co.uk/festivals/words-by-the-water--the-lake-district-23">"Words by the Water"</a> Literary Festival to Keswick. It starts on Friday, March 6th, and I volunteered to chair some events again this year. They gave me Eric Chaline's <i><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Temple-Perfection-History-Gym/dp/178023449X">The Temple of Perfection</a></i> (about the history of gymnasiums from Ancient Athens to the present day), and Levison Wood's <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/africa/levison-woods-walking-the-nile-the-challenge-of-a-lifetime-9987224.html"><i>Walking the Nile</i> </a>(about his 4,250 mile walk from the jungles of Burundi to the Mediterranean at Alexandria). </span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iFbbRAOv9Z8/VPIN2Jb7VNI/AAAAAAAABdg/e9ZpKUtJB6I/s1600/IMG_6822.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iFbbRAOv9Z8/VPIN2Jb7VNI/AAAAAAAABdg/e9ZpKUtJB6I/s1600/IMG_6822.jpg" height="320" width="217" /></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Unfortunately, Levison Wood will not be able to be in Keswick after all. In preparing to chair his talk, I enjoyed the <a href="http://www.channel4.com/programmes/walking-the-nile">Channel 4 TV series</a>, but learned more from his book. As I have spent some years of my life in Africa, I find his observations of the people and issues that he encountered thoughtful and enlightening, sometimes amusing, sometimes harrowing, and often riveting. So I am disappointed that I won't meet him at the festival to learn even more - and to share in his growing celebrity, of course!</span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bo5W1DOhHqY/VPIOK5Sij6I/AAAAAAAABdo/XPxiIdKTR9U/s1600/IMG_6821.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bo5W1DOhHqY/VPIOK5Sij6I/AAAAAAAABdo/XPxiIdKTR9U/s1600/IMG_6821.jpg" height="320" width="217" /></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Meanwhile, Eric Chaline's book has taught me a great deal about how the gymnasium has evolved in Europe and the US since its recognisable beginnings in 7th century BC Athens. As one blurb about </span><i style="color: #0b5394;"><a href="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/T/bo20174729.html"><span style="font-size: large;">The Temple of Perfection</span></a></i><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"> states, "Chaline surveys the gym's many incarnations and the ways the individual, the nation-state, the media, and the corporate world have intersected in its steamy confines". </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The agenda behind the setting up of a gym has not always been to help people pursue individual fulfilment or make millions, as we think of it now. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 19px;">There have been both more sinister, and more philanthropic, stimuli, it seems.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Apart from his many journalism articles, </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Eric has written <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eric-Chaline/e/B001IXO3WO">about 30 books</a> on a variety of subjects. I found I already had one of them on my shelves, although I hadn't realised who it was by! It's called <i><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Travellers-Guide-Ancient-World-Greece/dp/0715329197/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1425168506&sr=8-2&keywords=traveller%27s+guide+to+the+ancient+world">Traveller's Guide to ... Greece in the Year 415 BCE</a></i>. So I am really looking forward to meeting him at <a href="http://www.theatrebythelake.com/">Theatre by the Lake</a> in Keswick on March 8th and to finding out more about those 7th century BCE Greeks, those 20th century CE Californians on Muscle Beach, and all the entrepreneurs and idealists in between. </span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">I wonder if you'll be there too? We might enjoy tea and cake together in celebration of <i>The Boy with Two Heads'</i> third birthday!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>These are my shameless ads on Twitter for <i>The Boy with Two Heads</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Shameless ad 1: #theboywithtwoheads time-slip novel "captures the atmosphere of Ancient Greece". "Enthralling".</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Shameless ad 2: </span><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">#theboywithtwoheads time-slip novel</span><span style="color: #0b5394;"> "a gripping read" "brings Ancient Greece to vibrant life".</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Shameless ad 3: from my time-slip novel: "when </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">#theboywithtwoheads wins without a fight, Athena will pay her dues."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Shameless ad 4: </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">#theboywithtwoheads: "extremely well written ... I would love to see this book used in schools." 5stars. Thank you, Fiona!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Shameless ad 5: from my time-slip novel </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">#theboywithtwoheads: "You don't get to the Olympics unless you're the best."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">So as a sequel to my January posting about walking in London, this posting is mainly about my walk by the Solway Firth in Cumbria on Friday. It's been foggy since then, but on Friday it was almost Greek weather ...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: small;">As I arrived on the beach I put up a flock of seagulls,</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: small;"> but there was no one else there, just me and the birds.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: small;">They may have beached their boats on this shore.<br />The Hellenes (Ancient Greeks) I'm writing about were 500 years earlier and never left the Mediterranean. They pulled their ships up on land every night by a tideless sea.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">The poster was on the railings beside the reconstruction of a trireme </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">commissioned by the Greek Navy and built in 1987, called '</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympias_(trireme)">Olympias</a><span style="color: #0b5394;">'.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">She stands under her specially constructed ship shed by the sea in Faliron, near Athens. She is beautifully cared for and there is no entrance fee. There's a comprehensive blog post about her, written last year by Ellen Brundige, <a href="http://mythphile.hubpages.com/hub/trireme-2#slide10153752">here</a>, with facts, </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">figures, photographs and impressive videos of her underway. </span><br />
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J M Newsomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439887084973766257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680482127143109865.post-11405514347410792752015-01-01T14:20:00.000+00:002015-01-01T14:20:09.938+00:00Walking through history ...<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Writers often extol the virtues of walking t</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">o get the brain working</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">. I try to get out for an hour or so each day, though the weather at this time of year does not always help. So any clear day must be taken full advantage of.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">A few days ago, the sunshine drew me out for a longer than usual walk. In a loop across Blackheath and through Greenwich, I took in hundreds of years of history, from Henry VII's riverside terrace to views of the sky scrapers of Canary Wharf:</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: small;">(looking away from the river) These buildings were designed by <br />Christopher Wren and, by 1712, were the <a href="http://www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/info/200064/local_history_and_heritage/1058/royal_institutions_in_greenwich">Royal Hospital for Seamen</a> <br />at Greenwich. The Hospital closed in 1869 and the buildings became the<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Royal_Naval_College">Royal Naval College</a> until 1998. The 'bundle' is explained below.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: small;">And this is what he usually sees. The gates are 18th century, <br />with the seal of the Hospital in their centre,<br />the sky scrapers and the boat 21st century.<br />The terrace along by the river is all that is left of Henry VII's<br /> early 16th century Palace of Placentia - </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">floats oddly </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">on her glass skirt beside the </span><a href="http://www.greenwich-guide.org.uk/tunnel.htm">Greenwich Foot Tunnel</a><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: small;">There have been settlements at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich">Greenwich</a> since the bronze age.<br />This terrace of houses was built in the 18th century.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: small;">And looking east, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Wharf">Canary Wharf</a>'s windows reflect the sinking sun<br />in the rejuvenated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Docklands">Docklands</a> (1988 ongoing) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">I had walked a little under two miles, but through history I had travelled almost 600 years (even if you don't count the prehistoric barrows in Greenwich Park) from the Palace of Plancentia's river terrace to the towers of Docklands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span><span style="color: #0b5394;">As I stood looking at that vast view, I felt it would be appropriate to do a posting about this area's long history at the start 2015. By then it was time </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">to go home for tea and Christmas cake. </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">And, of course, to get back to writing. That's what the walks are for, after all, isn't it?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Last year in the summer, I prepared part of this posting. I didn't finish it because I have been looking for a particular reference (see second to last paragraph). </span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">As you can see, I had a wonderful trip in 2013. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Part of the research was another visit to </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Ancient Olympia. I went to have another look at <a href="http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/2/eh251.jsp?obj_id=502">Phidias' Workshop</a>. I took liberties with its design in <i><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boy-Two-Heads-J-Newsome/dp/0956810446">The Boy with Two Heads</a></i> and I wanted to see whether I had really changed it so much. This is how it appears in my story:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The main road was busy with traffic for the market and
the precinct. Panainos and Themis paused on the forecourt, looking at the front
of the Workshop. It was a huge, rectangular stone building with a high-walled
yard behind.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">‘He really did it,’ said Panainos quietly.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">‘Did what?’ asked Themis, surprised at the plainness
of what seemed to him to be just another warehouse.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">‘He said to me he’d build the workshop the same size
as the inner room of the temple, so that he could get the statue in the right
proportion.’</span> </blockquote>
</blockquote>
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<blockquote>
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">‘Why wouldn’t he?’ replied Themis. ‘It’s a very good
idea.’</span> </blockquote>
</blockquote>
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<blockquote>
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">‘Because it must have cost the Elians a lot more than
they bargained for,’ laughed Panainos. ‘Phidias never lets mere price stop him
when he plans a monument.’</span> </blockquote>
</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No one seemed to be around, but the small, heavy door
opened as they approached it. A guard in full armour with sword and spear
stepped out and confronted them. With him was a scribe, tablet and stylus at
the ready.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">‘Name and business?’ growled the guard.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">‘Panainos, son of Harmides, brother of Phidias,’
intoned Panainos, ‘and Themistokles, son of Kallistos, my apprentice.’</span> </blockquote>
</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The scribe wrote this down. The guard bowed his head
slightly and stood back. </span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">...</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[Inside] They turned through an open
doorway.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">‘Wow!’ breathed Themis as they stepped into a huge,
bright space where dust motes hung sparkling in the air and soft music played.
It was as high as a temple, with pillars painted on the walls. Cupboards and
storerooms lined the left side, workbenches the right. Light streamed in from
windows half way up the walls, and from panels in the ceiling.</span> </blockquote>
</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Panainos swept over to a long bench where four young
men were bent over their work. Themis saw trays of labelled pebbles, rows of
minute tools and the sparkle of cut gems as Panainos asked for Phidias.</span> </blockquote>
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<blockquote>
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One gem-cutter gestured to the high back wall that was
almost all door. They could see a sunny yard beyond. ‘Out there,’ he said </span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">...</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Two more armed guards
stood on either side of the doorway. They saluted Panainos as he and Themis
stepped out into sunlight. Acrid smells of vinegar and burning bone caught in
Themis’ throat.</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"> </span></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Phidias' workshop now</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">That was my fiction, but in reality there is no sign of the large door I gave the Workshop at the back, or of a yard. And the front door seems to have been quite large, not small as I made it. I had the columns inside painted on the walls when in fact it seems they were probably real and perhaps held up the roof. </span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sv3yP-WBCUw/U8Otc3T8QBI/AAAAAAAABUc/VODkDS5TDA8/s1600/IMG_2033.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sv3yP-WBCUw/U8Otc3T8QBI/AAAAAAAABUc/VODkDS5TDA8/s1600/IMG_2033.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">However, the building was turned into an early Christian basilica around AD440 and then destroyed in the earthquake of AD551, so perhaps my fictional view of it is not too impossible.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">This is the west wall where I made the huge door into a yard behind ...</span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PypVOLCatFk/U8Otg9hfHQI/AAAAAAAABUk/uB8wGaRcvgE/s1600/IMG_2034.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PypVOLCatFk/U8Otg9hfHQI/AAAAAAAABUk/uB8wGaRcvgE/s1600/IMG_2034.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">... and this is the south wall.</span><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wckY3rVhB5c/U8OuY4fixII/AAAAAAAABUs/b5Whe6803xY/s1600/IMG_2035.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wckY3rVhB5c/U8OuY4fixII/AAAAAAAABUs/b5Whe6803xY/s1600/IMG_2035.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">This is what it looks like inside now, with the early Byzantine church arrangements, now also ruined.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">There is a story that, during the excavations, a cup was found with the ancient Greek for 'I belong to </span><a href="http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/People/Phidias/">Phidias</a><span style="color: #0b5394;">' scratched on its bottom. This appears in most of the guide books and articles about the Workshop. But I read somewhere that the man who found the cup confessed on his deathbed to scratching the inscription himself. However, from the descriptions in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)">Pausanias</a><span style="color: #0b5394;"> and other sources and the archaeological finds of moulds and tools, it is quite clear that this building and its environs were where the statue was made and its golden, ivory, bejewelled and carved adornments prepared. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">And perhaps the story of the man on his deathbed is as fictional as my story. The cup might have been a tourist souvenir, as these were also sold in antiquity, according to the website <a href="http://ancientolympics.arts.kuleuven.be/eng/TA017EN.html">'Ancient Olympics'</a>. But if anyone reading this can vouch for the deathbed story, I would be very grateful, as I have searched for it again and again since I got back from that trip, and failed to find it.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">On the subject of using real places in historical fiction, I have come to the conclusion that we writers should use our common sense about what might have been, without making any glaring errors. Places readers can visit give an extra dimension to a story, as long as there is no disappointment involved. What do you think?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;">All photographs © Julia M Newsome, except the aerial view of Phidias' workshop, which was taken from a postcard with no credit given.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Saronic Gulf via Google Earth. The Methana Peninsula</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">is just left </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">of centre, </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">near the bottom of the map</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I have read about an intriguing ancient wall*. It was built in 425 BC across</span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 14pt;"> the isthmus of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methana" style="font-size: 14pt;">Methana</a><span style="color: #0b5394;">,</span> <span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 19px;">and</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 14pt;"> I want to refer to it in my next book, the sequel to </span><i style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 19px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Boy-Two-Heads-Newsome/dp/0956810446/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1412265497&sr=8-2">The Boy with Two Heads</a></i><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 14pt;">. However, s</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 14pt;">ince the wall was built, there have been many
earthquakes, a volcanic eruption in 230 BC, and parts of nearby towns have slid into the sea. There are still hot springs not
far away, some of which are</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 14pt;">rumoured to have
started after ‘fire shot out of the ground’. So what could possibly be left after 2,439 years and all that volcanic activity? </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 19px;">I felt I needed to see, and to get a feel of the surrounding area.</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 19px;"> </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The <a href="http://www.blueguides.com/greece/">Blue Guide: Greece The Mainland</a> mentions “… fortifications, traces of which are visible …”, which was a sign there might be something, but
Google Earth seemed to show only trees. Pausanias doesn’t mention a wall at all
near Methana, but one or two others do, probably quoting <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/thucydides" style="font-size: 14pt;">Thucydides</a>, the historian. He was also a general </span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 19px;">on the Athenian side against the Spartans </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 14pt;">in
the </span><a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/449362/Peloponnesian-War" style="font-size: 14pt;">Peloponnesian War</a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 14pt;">, and it was the Athenians who built the wall, so he should have known.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Methana peninsular (NASA)</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Methana today is a dormant volcanic peninsula in the shape of a wonky pear, jutting into the Saronic Gulf in Greece. The isthmus looks like the stalk of the pear.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 14.0pt;">So, on my latest
trip to Greece, I set off with my husband to find the ‘traces’, believing
that there would be a registered archaeological site, or at least a Ministry of Culture sign. But when we got to the narrowest part of the
isthmus, all we could see was steep hillsides covered in small trees and
scrub. The isthmus is only about 300 metres wide, but the hill in the middle
forms a spine that hides one side from the other. We spent quite a while driving up and down tarmac and dirt roads, looking for something official. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 14.0pt;">Eventually we found this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The path indicated
was hardly well trodden and led us </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">into thick scrub on both
sides of the spine. We followed it past a tiny chapel at the highest point and,
a few metres further on, tripped over a heap of stones. They seemed randomly
arranged on one side, but had a straight edge on the other. Could this have
been a round tower in a straight wall, stretching up and over the spine? There
were large shrubs and bushes obscuring the ground all around us. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The Methana wall from the side the Athenians would see.</span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">We pushed our way through the undergrowth and
climbed up and down among dilapidated olive terraces. Gradually we found more pieces
of a sturdy wall, in what looked like a straight line, about a metre and a half wide and up
to two metres high in places. It seemed we had found Thucydides' wall! It isn't made of well dressed stones, but there are holes for beams </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 19px;">to support a platform, </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 19px;">and steps up to the top </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 19px;">o</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 14pt;">n the Athenian side, so it is certainly not a farm wall.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The Methana Wall, looking north <br />from the highest point</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The Methana wall from the side the Spartans would see.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: 19px;">We took far too many photographs and retreated, scratched, sweaty, and feeling ridiculously pleased with ourselves.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Thanks are due to the kind local person who painted the sign
we followed (and many other signs we saw in the neighbourhood)! </span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 19px;">Assuming I am right about its origins, I find it a wonder that the wall has survived all those years including the eruption, </span><i style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 19px;">and</i><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 19px;"> that we could just walk up to it, and on it, and round it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And, now that I know what to look for, </span><span style="font-size: 19px;">it <i>is </i>just traceable on Google Earth, and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I can see it</span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 14pt;"> in the photos I took </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 19px;">from a distance </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: 14pt;">before we found it. Can you see it in this one?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">See also:</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">http://www.methana.gr/index.php/en/# - mainly in Greek</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Photographs not credited are all copyright Julia M Newsome.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">After all those boring </span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">(not to me, of course!) </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">pots I posted about a fortnight ago, I thought you might like something a bit sexier. So here goes...</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yesterday, I went to see the movie <i><a href="http://www.herculesmovie.co.uk/#/video/1">Hercules</a></i> </span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">(the trailer in this link has all the best bits of the film, but </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_(2014_film)" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Wikipedia</a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> is more informative)</span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">. It was research,
you understand, background for my writing. A</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">s I drove us home, m</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">y companion said a strange thing: 'Not a single inguinal crease on show, even though it’s
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">'How true,' said I, nodding sagely. As soon as I got home, I looked up inguinal crease on the internet. And sure enough, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles">Herakles</a> (Hercules in Latin) is often depicted as naked or nearly naked, showing a pronounced inguinal crease (if you don't know what it is yet, Jess </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Cartner-Morley explains below</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">).</span></div>
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noticing, so to speak, especially if you've been watching the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, where the beauty of perfectly toned athletic bodies is constantly on show. And if you study anything to do with Ancient Greece or Rome, you will see them everywhere anyway. </span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">It seems it's the must-have-for-men in the beauty stakes this year.</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">This is how Jess Cartner-Morley introduces it in the
Guardian (on <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/jul/05/how-to-flash-the-flesh-this-summer#comments">5th July</a>) as part of her </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">‘G</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">uide to contemporary
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>"One for the boys.</b> Popeye biceps and </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chippendales"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Chippendale</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> pecs are
so very over. The trophy body part for the 2014 male is the inguinal
crease: the v-shaped dip between the waist and groin. This is nothing
new – </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://cdn.tokyotimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/michelangelo-david.jpg"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Michelangelo's David had it going on</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> – but
after a slow buildup (think </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YpvBzhwqWaU/T_Cs_0MbgjI/AAAAAAAAAhg/PR_5MDx7xvM/s1600/D-Angelo.jpeg"><span style="text-decoration: none;">D'Angelo</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">, and </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.bradwarthen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Brad-Pitt-fight-club-body2.jpg"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Brad Pitt in Fight Club</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">, and </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/fashion-blog/2011/oct/12/marksspencer-david-gandy"><span style="text-decoration: none;">David Gandy</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> modelling Dolce &
Gabbana), this year they are everywhere. (See: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://uk.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2012714/reg_1024.beckham.hm.mh.081412.jpg"><span style="text-decoration: none;">David Beckham's underwear adverts</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">.) What's
interesting is that this is not a muscle, but a ligament –
in other words, to expose it requires not building muscle, but losing fat.
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/building-a-bigger-action-hero-20140418"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Men's Health magazine reports</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> that
for an optimal inguinal crease, you need to get down to between
5% and 8% body fat. The inguinal crease craze is, in other words, the size zero
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depth of the thighs (deeper than the chest – part of its stylisation, perhaps?) And then I noticed that there was a line that almost looked as though
the legs had been made separately and added to the torso. Little did I know then that it would be turn out to be the definitive symbol of sexy </span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">masculinity in </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">2014.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: small;">Leonardo da Vinci's<br /><a href="http://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html">Proportions of the Human Figure</a>, after Vitruvius<br />Venice Academy</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Youth of Antikythira<br />in the National Archaeological<br />Museum of Athens.<br />Photo by Ricardo André Frantz</span></span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Last but not least in this gallery of gorgeousness,</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I'd like to draw attention to the much-renovated statue whose head we used for
the cover of <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Boy-Two-Heads-Newsome/dp/0956810446/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1406587446&sr=8-2" style="font-style: italic;">The Boy with Two Heads</a><i>. </i>He has an inguinal crease to die for. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As you probably know by now, he is called the <a href="http://www.namuseum.gr/object-month/2012/jan/jan12-en.html">Youth of Antikythira</a>. I have always felt that his face is too young for his body, which is why we used it for my Boy who is twelve, but I have recommended that my </span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">movie-going companion </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">has a look at the rest of him, seeing that Hercules in the movie was such a disappointment. Mind you, to my eyes, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425005/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm">Dwayne Johnson</a>, who plays Hercules, has even more impressive muscles than the drawings in the comic books that the film is based on. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But of course that, dear Reader, is not why I went to see it ...</span></div>
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J M Newsomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439887084973766257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680482127143109865.post-2287626245510089062014-07-13T13:25:00.002+01:002014-07-14T10:29:43.019+01:00Ancient Pueblan vs Ancient Greek pots ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">On my latest travels I visited Utah and
Arizona in the United States. Among other incidental excitements (like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon">Grand Canyon</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley">Monument Valley</a>, and <a href="http://www.utah.com/nationalparks/bryce.htm">Bryce Canyon</a> - wow!), I saw some of the pottery made by the
Kayenta and Navajo peoples about a thousand years ago. I was
reminded of other pots I’ve seen from Ancient Greece. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Assuming you are as geeky as I am about
such things, dear reader (Themis, my <a href="http://carlanayland.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-boy-with-two-heads-by-jm-newsome.html">Boy with Two Heads</a>, was a painter on terracotta as well as an athlete...), I thought you might be amused by a picture puzzle. Can
you tell which of the pots in the pictures below are from what is now the USA, and which are from
various periods in Ancient Greece and Etruria? I wouldn't have been sure of all of
them if I hadn’t already known, so to speak. The explanations are below the last picture.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Modern sculptures of marathon runners outside the <a href="http://www.visitmarathon.gr/index.php/en/marathon-race-en/marathon-run-museum/item/%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF-%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%B8%CF%89%CE%BD%CE%AF%CE%BF%CF%85-%CE%B4%CF%81%CF%8C%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%85">Marathon Run Museum</a>, Attica, Greece, remind me of the vase paintings of the ancient runners who ran such distances as a matter of course - see below. There was no long distance running race in the Olympic or other Games in ancient times. Running was just how they got from place to place, and they would keep up the pace by beating out a rhythm or singing or playing music. I read on Twitter today about a suggested playlist for Marathon runners! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">In <i><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Boy-Two-Heads-Newsome/dp/0956810446/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1397396597&sr=8-2&keywords=the+boy+with+two+heads">The Boy with Two Heads</a></i>, Themis has to cover the distance between Olympia and the small village of Pylos near Elis (?40 kms) with his sidekick Frog and a guard called Xenon. "Once they had run until they were tired, he got out a flute ..."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">I am also reminded of the <a href="http://vimeo.com/36852615">mural</a> made in 2012 at Providence College, Rhode Island, USA, (as mentioned in this <a href="http://kneadtowrite.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/time-slip-illustrated.html">blog in April 2012</a>) that links Then and Now.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">My congratulations to all those who took/are taking part in this year's London Marathon. I heard it was the 127th official marathon. What courage and determination in so many good causes! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Does this sculpture remind you of anything? </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">It seems the idea of the two-headed man is not only connected to</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"> my </span><i style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13819048-the-boy-with-two-heads?from_search=true">Boy with Two Heads</a></i><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">This sculpture is by <a href="http://www.nailfactory.org.uk/Archive/PeterDowden/DowdenBiog.html">Peter Dowden</a>. It is called 'Nippon ma hied'. We found him/them unexpectedly in the sculpture garden at <a href="http://www.nts.org.uk/property/threave-estate/">Threave Estate</a> in Dumfries and Galloway where w</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">e were daffodil hunting at the weekend.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Then again, sculptures of people are not the only design features with two heads. Later, in a greenhouse, I saw one of Nature's own. It, too, echoes Ancient Greek motifs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">This fern is a tree fern from Australasia, but all ferns uncurl their new leaves in this way. Not always in perfect symmetry, however, like this one. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.3;">all photographs </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">©JuliaMNewsome</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 1.3;"> except the vase-border (detail from an Attic red-figure bell-krater by the Villa Giulia Painter, in the British Museum) and the volute-krater (Metropolitan Museum of Art).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 25px;">This is the last of my three posts about Words by the Water (a festival of Words and Ideas, staged by </span><a href="http://www.wayswithwords.co.uk/" style="background-color: white; line-height: 25px; text-decoration: none;">Ways with Words</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 25px;">) (#WBTW14), which finished yesterday at </span><a href="http://www.theatrebythelake.com/" style="background-color: white; line-height: 25px; text-decoration: none;">Theatre by the Lake</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 25px;"> in Keswick, </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 25px;">Cumbria.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">During the festival, I chaired three speakers, and my last was <a href="http://community.dur.ac.uk/barbara.graziosi/">Professor Barbara Graziosi</a> of the University of Durham. She was talking about her book <i><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_337744034"></span>The Gods of Olympus, A History<span id="goog_337744035"></span></a></i>, which came out last year.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The very first sentence of her book is: </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“This
book is a history of the Olympian gods - the </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;">most uncivilised ambassadors of
classical civilisation.” This sets the tone for an erudite but fast-paced romp through history in the wake of the "multifaceted, migrating Olympian gods". Even when they have been banned and relegated to hidden altars or the role of demons in nursery stories, they have survived and reappeared again and again.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Barbara was great company and we swopped stories about our careers and our kids over lunch before her talk. She was wearing unremarkable dark clothes, just as my two male speakers had. But, unlike them, she changed into a pair of brightly mottled red, green and white platform heels just as we went through to the stage. For me, that summed up her sense of fun against a serious and well researched background. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The audience were very attentive, especially when she explained how Arabic translations of Ancient Greek texts were made at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wisdom">House of Wisdom</a>, started by <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/361008/al-Mamun">caliph al-Ma'mun</a> and his father in what is now Iran </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">(see page 2 of the link)</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">. This institute of learning in Baghdad kept the Ancient Greek texts alive during the European 'Dark Ages' and itself survived for 400 years until 1258 AD. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #0b5394;">From her book I learned that in Plato's ideal city (see <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/640532.Six_Great_Dialogues">The Republic</a>), "Homer and Hesiod would have no place, because their poems spread false and degenerate rumours about the deities"; and that "In Renaissance art, the gods of Olympus tended to appear in lush settings: fresh meadows, riverbanks, shady woods, the seaside. In that respect too they were exploiting a gap in the market, for Christianity was essentially a city religion," a thought that had not occurred to me.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Afterwards, I gave Barbara a copy of <i>The Boy with Two Heads</i> as she said she was interested in my descriptions of Zeus and his statue at Olympia. For me, her book has made it easier to imagine how the Ancient Greeks saw their gods, how they felt about them and the many ways in which they questioned their existence. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It also poses and partly answers the question of why we are still conscious of them, still writing stories about them, and some people still worship them. I haven't found an answer that completely satisfies me, in spite of Barbara's help. Perhaps, like so many others in the course of more than two and a half millennia, I never will ...</span><br />
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J M Newsomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439887084973766257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680482127143109865.post-51626492231298849302014-03-16T20:54:00.000+00:002014-04-13T18:05:59.549+01:00Ancient Greeks with Tom Holland, by the Lake<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Landing stages at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, March 2014</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; line-height: 25px;">As mentioned in my last, Words by the Water (a festival of Words and Ideas, staged by </span><a href="http://www.wayswithwords.co.uk/" style="background-color: white; color: #cc9966; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; line-height: 25px; text-decoration: none;">Ways with Words</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">) (#WBTW14) finished today at </span></span><a href="http://www.theatrebythelake.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #cc9966; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; line-height: 25px; text-decoration: none;">Theatre by the Lake</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; line-height: 25px;"> in Keswick, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Cumbria.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">The second speaker I chaired was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Holland_(author)">Tom Holland</a>. His new translation of the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/10356666/Tom-Holland-The-Histories-are-a-great-shaggy-dog-story.html">Histories of Herodotus</a> came out in September last year, and he was talking about this on March 11th. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Tom has a vivid sense of fun and is interested in a wide variety of subjects, from owls, to cricket, to fossils, to - oh, just about everything! And so was <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/263507/Herodotus">Herodotus</a>. He tells us about flying snakes, sheep with tails so long and heavy they had to be supported by little trailers, methods of building pyramids, love matches, dismemberments, stonings, soldiers who lasso-ed their opponents to pull them onto their daggers, family feuds, the Egyptian version of what happened to Helen of Troy, and - after many fascinating travels and stories - finally the wars between the Persians and the Greeks. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">So listening to such things re-told by Tom gave the audience lots to laugh at and think about. Tom's translation, as I said in my introduction of him, is in an easy-to-read, colourful style (as are his other books). An example is:</span><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ilX3OlTMSoA/UyXO0rT404I/AAAAAAAABOE/hfKRBAFxx2o/s1600/IMG_3865.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ilX3OlTMSoA/UyXO0rT404I/AAAAAAAABOE/hfKRBAFxx2o/s1600/IMG_3865.jpg" height="290" width="400" /></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Tom told us, upon questioning, that Herodotus is the longest Ancient Greek text surviving. It took him six years - translating a paragraph </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">a day, </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">every day</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">(sometimes two pages, sometimes a couple of lines) - to complete. He was asked to do this by an editor at Penguin Classics who saw him presenting his own take on the Persian Wars in <i><a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/id/Persian_Fire/9780349117171">Persian Fire</a></i> some years ago, at - of course - Words by the Water! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I dip into <a href="http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/id/The_Histories/9780713999778">Herodotus</a> often. In <i><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boy-Two-Heads-J-Newsome/dp/0956810446">The Boy with Two Heads</a></i>, I use one of his stories. It is about Arion, who was saved from drowning by dolphins (my chapter 18). Herodotus himself appears for a second in chapter 45, sitting on a box under a tree in Olympia, </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">reading his own histories from a scroll to the milling crowds that have come to witness the</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> Olympic Games. Perhaps he sold copies of short extracts.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Herodotus underpins so much of what we know about Ancient Greece. Scholars think his writings must have been preserved because they are so interesting, conversational and, at times, funny. As he says himself, he can only be sure of what he has seen with his own eyes. As for what he has been told, all he can do is write it down. He cannot vouch for its truth.</span><br />
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J M Newsomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439887084973766257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680482127143109865.post-22150449661345366662014-03-16T12:35:00.001+00:002014-03-16T12:35:32.704+00:00Ancient Greeks - and Louis de Bernieres - by the Lake<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Words by the Water (a festival of Words and Ideas, staged by <a href="http://www.wayswithwords.co.uk/">Ways with Words</a>) (#WBTW14) finished today at <a href="http://www.theatrebythelake.com/">Theatre by the Lake</a> in Keswick, Cumbria.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">This year I volunteered to chair three talks with connections to Greece and/or Greek, and was granted all three. This post is about <a href="http://www.louisdebernieres.co.uk/">Louis de Bernieres</a>, who spoke to a large audience on March 7th, Day 1 of the festival.</span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eaKaz1kRQzc/UyWKYyimOgI/AAAAAAAABM4/x1vFVxUAD2Q/s1600/513LYz5sH5L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA278_PIkin4,BottomRight,-68,22_AA300_SH20_OU02_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eaKaz1kRQzc/UyWKYyimOgI/AAAAAAAABM4/x1vFVxUAD2Q/s1600/513LYz5sH5L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA278_PIkin4,BottomRight,-68,22_AA300_SH20_OU02_.jpg" height="320" width="200" /></span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Louis read some of the poems in <i>Imagining Alexandria</i>, his first book of poetry, published last year. He says the style of the poems in this book follows that of <a href="http://www.cavafy.com/">Constantine Cavafy</a>, who lived in Alexandria and wrote poems in Greek from about 1900 to 1933. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">I sometimes read Cavafy's poems to keep my modern Greek alive, and my children studied a few of them at school. Some</span><span style="font-size: large;"> of them are about love between men (both ancient and modern) and s</span><span style="font-size: large;">ome take moments in Ancient Greece and look at them through the eyes of an unexpected participant - a battle viewed by a poet*, or a pedlar confused by a phoney victory parade**. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Some of Louis' poems are similar. One particularly poignant one is imagined as by the jailor of Socrates***.</span><br />
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<!--StartFragment--><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">"We are rigid and formal in some ways, but we
believe in the right to eccentricity, as long as the eccentricities are large
enough... Woe betide you if you hold your knife incorrectly, but good luck to
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">He told us that this was an extension of the opinion of a Frenchman who said, "</span>Britain really is an immense lunatic asylum".</span><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ncmakuT9geA/UyWXWl-lEKI/AAAAAAAABNY/7X3TStoz_lw/s1600/Louis+signing+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ncmakuT9geA/UyWXWl-lEKI/AAAAAAAABNY/7X3TStoz_lw/s1600/Louis+signing+2.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">Louis read other unpublished poems. One of them was </span><span style="font-size: large;">about his lively young daughter who woke up saying "I dreamed I was flying." Another was </span><span style="font-size: large;">about rooks wheeling and riding the wind over the valley near where he lives. Louis told us he rescues baby rooks that fall out of nests and keeps them as pets (see the introduction page to <a href="http://www.louisdebernieres.co.uk/">his website</a>). He is convinced they are more intelligent than dogs. In my opinion, Louis is not quite in the loincloth-up-a-tree class, but he's much more entertainingly eccentric. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">* <i><a href="http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=349&cat=1">Darius</a> </i>by C. P. Cavafy</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">** <i><a href="http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=143&cat=1">In Alexandria, 31 B.C.</a> </i>by C. P. Cavafy</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">*** </span><i style="color: #0b5394;">The Jailer</i><span style="color: #0b5394;"> by Louis de Bernieres</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Further to my previous post about those Ancient Greeks following me everywhere, they've been appearing in the oddest places in London ...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/275648.Socrates">Socrates said</a>, "The unexamined life is not worth living".</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BX5RNQuCtF4/UxH-xfU2muI/AAAAAAAABMQ/1qiC5-j5Qhk/s1600/350+Euston+Road.+London.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="statues of 2 men facing each other" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BX5RNQuCtF4/UxH-xfU2muI/AAAAAAAABMQ/1qiC5-j5Qhk/s1600/350+Euston+Road.+London.jpg" height="400" title="" width="296" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">... and on the street! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">I couldn't find any reference to the sculptor of these two naked men facing each other through the glass, but I'm sure there was </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">at least </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">some influence from statues such as the Hermes in the museum at Ancient Olympia. If you know who made the two men, please contact me. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">At present I am reading <i><a href="http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/barbara+graziosi/the+gods+of+olympus3a+a+history/9651948/">The Gods of Olympus: A History</a></i> by Professor Barbara Graziosi. She traces people's attitudes to the twelve gods from their origins before Homer to the Middle Ages, a period of more than 2000 years. In the preface she says, "Like many migrants, they adapted to their new circumstances, while retaining a sense of their distant origins". That seems an appropriate comment on their appearances in our lives today.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O6DDoL-jFS4/UxIIjZRCCQI/AAAAAAAABMo/riEaOSir5aE/s1600/Sian+Frances'+Zeus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O6DDoL-jFS4/UxIIjZRCCQI/AAAAAAAABMo/riEaOSir5aE/s1600/Sian+Frances'+Zeus.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">artist's representation of Phidias' statue of<br />Zeus at Olympia, by Sian Frances</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">And they are still here - with me, at least - as kaleidoscopic and mutable as the human characteristics they represent. They fire my imagination and augment my stories. In fact, today is the second anniversary of the publication of <i>The Boy with Two Heads</i> in which Zeus features so strongly. I have a copy of Sian Frances' <a href="http://kneadtowrite.blogspot.co.uk/2012_12_01_archive.html">painting of him</a> on my noticeboard. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">So now it's more a case of my following the Ancient Greeks, I suppose...</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Reproduction in the Royal Ontario Museum<br />of Phidias' statue of Athena,<br />finished 438 BC for inside the Parthenon in Athens.</span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WG0dXVQE1dA/UwO5A7KASsI/AAAAAAAABKw/CYy7NdIJEag/s1600/IMG_3551.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"></span></a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Not long ago, I was in Toronto, Canada, spending holiday time with family. They had asked me to stop thinking about writing for a few days, as we don't see each other very often. 'No problem,' I said. 'No writing.'</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">We decided to go to the <a href="http://www.rom.on.ca/en">Royal Ontario Museum</a> as a worth-while afternoon occupation during a snowy weekend. Once there, I walked round a corner into the <a href="http://www.rom.on.ca/en/exhibitions-galleries/galleries/world-cultures/gallery-greece">Greek galler</a>y, and look who I found!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">I have seen photographs of this reproduction of Phidias' statue of Athena in the Parthenon again and again. In my ignorance, I thought it was in New York or somewhere, and 12 metres tall like the original (and the reproduction in <a href="http://www.nashville.gov/Parks-and-Recreation/Parthenon/Athena.aspx">Nashville</a>). But it's in a small alcove protected from people who would like to touch (like me) by a sheet of glass. Athena is only about two and a half feet (70cms) tall. </span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch">Plutarch</a>, </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~filippou/Research/Fedeas/pheidias.htm">Phidias</a>* had a lot of trouble with that statue of Athena, culminating in two court cases. Apart from his obviously supreme talents, Phidias was a close friend of the powerful politician Perikles, and so he was a target for the jealousy of lesser mortals. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">One court case accused him of stealing some of the gold Athena was covered in. That fact became part of the plot of my novel <i>The Boy with Two Heads. </i>In my story Phidias and Themis' father had had to invest their own gold when they discovered that indeed some gold and jewels were missing from the Athena. They had never got their money back, but the oracle had told them, 'When the boy with two heads ... wins without a fight, Athena will pay her dues.' </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">You can see why </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Phidias </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">and </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">statues of Athena are quite important to me as I research the sequel to </span><i style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">The Boy</i><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">left to right: Amazon, ?Perikles, ?Phidias, ?Greek soldier<br />from the reproduction shield of Athena<br />in the Royal Ontario Museum.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">And evidence for Phidias' other court case is there in the Royal Ontario Museum, too. They have made a reproduction of the shield of this Athena, where Phidias is supposed to have incorporated a self portrait (and one of Perikles) among the fighters in the battle between Greeks and Amazons depicted there. These portraits constituted a punishable offence in the Athens of the 430s BC, and led to a court case that saw Phidias supposedly imprisoned.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Athena Lemnias<br />Roman copy of bronze<br />by Phidias in circa 450 BC</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">However, he then went on to make the huge statue of Zeus that features so strongly in <i>The Boy with Two Heads,</i> which became one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. He made many statues, and, in the museum hall adjacent, there are two marble heads, alleged copies of bronzes also by Phidias or his circle. Again I had seen pictures of them. but never expected to find them unprotected and at eye level. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">For me this was an afternoon of treasure trove. </span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">As for my companions, they just rolled their eyes and </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">went off to see the </span><a href="http://www.rom.on.ca/en/exhibitions-galleries/galleries/natural-history/bat-cave" style="font-size: x-large;">bat cave</a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"> and the dinosaur fossils. Much more fun, they said! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">*Phidias in Greek is spelled Pheidias, but he is pronounced simply Phidias, so I use this spelling.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">All photos </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">©Julia M Newsome</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">. Please credit me if you borrow them. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I spent the morning and afternoon at <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/guardian-masterclasses">seminars</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">about blogging </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">(twitter #bloglikeapro) </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in the Guardian building near Kings Cross</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">. I learned a whole raft of ways in which your experience of my blog can be made more pleasant and useful.
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Someone asked me the other day where the main character in <i>The Boy with Two Heads</i> comes from, and whether I made him up. We were talking about a new review that has appeared on the Amazon page for <i>The Boy</i>, for which I am very grateful. It is short and to the point:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; text-align: -webkit-left;">This was a very engaging read. Lovers of the Grecian era will find it interesting, and the blog is a good twist. Should appeal to teens.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #b45f06; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; text-align: -webkit-left;">(by Prudence, who gives it five stars)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> I was very glad to see your last sentence. I specifically wrote <i>The Boy with Two Heads</i> for today's teenagers, because it seems to me that their only contact with Greek gods and heroes these days is through exciting fantasies like those about <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Percy-Jackson-5-Book-Boxed-Olympians/dp/1423136802/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389641854&sr=1-5&keywords=percy+jackson">Percy Jackson</a> by <a href="http://www.rickriordan.com/home.aspx" target="_blank">Rick Riordan</a> in which the gods and heroes are active characters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In museums all over the world, there are thousands of representations of Apollo and Hermes and Poseidon (and Herakles and Athena, and so on) on vases or sculpted in stone, wood, or other precious materials, </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">as if they were real people who walked the streets with the ordinary populace. They may have been based on memories of real heroes or explanations for strange historical happenings, </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but from the literature we have from 700 BC onwards, we know it was generally accepted that you were unlikely to meet any of them in the flesh, though they influenced all aspects of life.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> For years I've been reading (in small doses, I must admit) what was actually written by the writers of those times. I've read about wars and theatres and laws and gods and myths, all translated from the ancient Greek texts. Repeatedly I come across the ancient Olympic Games. These are held up, among other things, as the ultimate way to worship Zeus the father of the gods, </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">as motivation for young men to train hard,</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and as the framework for the calendar in some parts of Greece with their four-year cycle. They were very important.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> So, when I found the long description of Ancient Olympia, written in 160 </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">AD</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> (in Pausanias' Guide to Greece, translated by Peter Levi), I was entranced by the descriptions of the temples with their glorious and gaudy treasures and statues of gods and goddesses, even though they were written 500 years after the period I was researching. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> But my eye strayed to the beginning of the next paragraph. "For the sake of Pheidias and his genius as a sculptor, I must introduce here the boy tying a ribbon round his head, although we have no idea whose portrait Pheidias's statue is." </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> And there he was...</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> I had a real hero, his story already half-made in my imagination.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">As part of my research lately I've been looking at lots of ancient Greek vase paintings. For instance, i<span lang="EN-US">n October, I spent a wonderful rainy
afternoon at the </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g194791-d2507082-Reviews-Museo_Provinciale_Sigismondo_Castromediano-Lecce_Province_of_Lecce_Puglia.html#REVIEWS" target="_blank">Museo Provinciale Sigismondo Castromediano</a> </span><span lang="EN-US">in Lecce in Southern Italy. They have a wide variety of
painted and sculpted vases from about 550 BC onwards. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0b5394;">I was entranced by</span><span style="color: #0b5394;"> the detail and beautiful compositions of these two. But there are many, many more wonderful things to see ...</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">In <i>The</i> <i>Boy with Two Heads</i>, my hero, Themis, painted on pots and terra cotta tiles. He may not have been able to remember much of his
childhood, but he didn't lose his ability to draw when he suffered his
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #b45f06;">"He remembered painting a pot ... and then smashing it because it was not good enough. Ariphron had mended it because he liked the picture on it of goats reaching up to eat olive leaves."</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0b5394;">I spent a long time the other day looking for a picture of a pot with olive trees and a goat to illustrate something I was writing about Themis. I was sure I had seen one at some point, but in the end I gave up.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">However, I did come across this site: <a href="http://www.panoply.org.uk/">http://www.panoply.org.uk</a>, which pleased me immensely. It has ancient Greek vase paintings that have been animated! They are done by experts but with input from local school children near Reading in Berkshire,
west of London. They chose vase paintings from the <a href="http://www.reading.ac.uk/Ure/index.php" target="_blank">Ure Museum</a> at Reading University and made very short, but often <a href="http://www.panoply.org.uk/clash-of-the-dicers.html#.UsC00BaAefQ" target="_blank">amusing</a>, little movies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">Also, there is a YouTube clip made by Oxford
University for Christmas which includes brief moments of animated vase
paintings among other wonders of the Ashmolean Museum that come alive <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6AuTch808I&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">here</a> …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">These charming ideas reminded me that, when I was at university studying drama
(more than 40 years ago), I wrote a storyboard for a short movie of a myth. It was to be animated drawings in the style of red figure vases (like those in the first picture above). In
those days there was no chance of making such a film without a huge
movie-making process and thousands of pounds, so it just stayed as an idea. My story was to be that </span>of Hermes stealing Apollo's cattle. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">When, out of curiosity, I checked out that particular myth on-line, look <a href="http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/T23.1.html" target="_blank">what I found ...</a></span></span><br />
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<!--EndFragment-->J M Newsomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439887084973766257noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8680482127143109865.post-62204610570537462452013-11-25T13:12:00.000+00:002013-11-25T13:17:02.852+00:00Dr Who meets the Antikythera Mechanism?<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Did anyone else who saw the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Doctor" target="_blank">50th anniversary</a> edition of Dr Who on <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-24/doctor-who-fans-watch-anticipated-episode-day-of-the-doctor/5113412" target="_blank">Saturday at 19.50</a> on BBC One notice that the ultimate<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> Gallifreyan super weapon</span> looked a bit like the Antikythera Mechanism (AM), but in a shinier box? I wrote a blog <a href="http://kneadtowrite.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-boys-1st-anniversary.html" target="_blank">post back in March</a> mentioning this 1st century BC astrolabe/cosmic movement monitor, which was found among the debris of a shipwreck off the island of Antikythera in southern Greece. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I don't often watch Dr Who (though perhaps I shall in future), so I have probably got hold of the wrong ends of various sticks. But if I understood correctly, in this Dr Who episode (and in a previously unrecorded incarnation played by John Hurt) the Doctor <i>'watches Gallifrey [his home planet] falling to a Dalek invasion and decides to trigger an ancient Time Lord weapon of mass destruction called "The Moment", which is described as a "galaxy eater" and will destroy both races</i></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 19px;"><i> completely'*</i> including </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">something over 200 billion innocent children (forgive me, numbers with more than three digits go over my head). "The Moment" has a conscience/interface which manifests in the shape of Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), making actually setting it off even more difficult, as she asks "Are you sure?"</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I can't find a picture of "The Moment", but it is a very neat cube of wood and brass about 40cm square. It has intricate wheels and cogs on at least one of its sides and reminded me irresistibly of the </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Antikythera Mechanism.</span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> It looks sturdier than this AM reconstruction and has no handles (so Rose/The Interface can sit on it comfortably), but "The Moment" is definitely </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">visually </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">reminiscent of the Mechanism. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Of course, there's a big difference between the ultimate weapon and a machine that predicts eclipses and other cosmic occurrences - or is there? Were Steven Moffat and the Dr Who script researchers suggesting that it would be a similar mechanism that in fact would change the movements of the planets and stars (not just predict them) and therefore eclipse parts of our universe altogether? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">No wonder children (and others) are fascinated by such questions as "If our galaxy was sucked into a black hole, where would it come out?" or "If time were cyclical, would I meet myself coming the other way?" </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">*</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Wikipedia:<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_779997666" style="font-size: x-large;"> </a></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Doctor">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Doctor</a></span>J M Newsomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04439887084973766257noreply@blogger.com1