Today was a visit to the National Archaeological Museum, which I’ve visited on every trip to Greece. And here’s the golden death mask of a Mycenaean king, which Heinrich Schliemann decided belonged to Agamemnon. (Turns out Agamemnon lived four hundred years after this guy kicked the bucket) Contemporary critics of Schliemann thought the mask looked […]

Now here’s a Roman for you, the product of the merger of Roman portrait traditions with Greek painting and Egyptian funerary customs. Nothing seems to be known about the subject, save that (from the narrow red stripe on his tunic) he would seem to be a member of the Equestrian Order. This might have been […]

Edward Willett and Shadowpaw Press, with help from Kickstarter, has released a perfectly enormous anthology that is well worth your time. The anthology features authors who have been interviewed on the Worldshapers podcast. Names include Griffin Barber, James Morrow, Jane Yolen, Cory Doctorow, F. Paul Wilson, and yours truly. Most stories are original. (Mine, “Send […]