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BOOK REVIEW

Asterios and the Labyrinth | Reviewed by Leonard Smuts for Readers’ Favorite

Leave a Comment / May 26, 2026

Set on the island of Crete during the Minoan Bronze Age some 3,500 years ago, Asterios and the Labyrinth (Mythos of Knossos) by Edmond Thornfield is a tale of gods, kings, heroes, revolts, and magical powers. The Minoans, a wealthy people known for their farming and commerce, experienced some turbulence following the death of King […]

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PART TWO | The Heroes at the Gate: Assembling the Hunters of Khalydōn

PART TWO | The Heroes at the Gate: Assembling the Hunters of Khalydōn

Leave a Comment / May 25, 2026

In the world of Atalanta of the Wild, worthy men do not simply walk into a king’s megaron. They are announced. A court herald strikes his staff upon the stone floor, and the name, lineage, and fame of the arriving hero ring out across the hall before the man himself has taken three steps into

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PART ONE | No Clock for The Calydonian Boar Hunt: What the Ancient Sources Tell Us—and What They Don't

PART ONE | No Clock for The Calydonian Boar Hunt: What the Ancient Sources Tell Us—and What They Don’t

Leave a Comment / May 25, 2026

Every novelist who works with ancient mythology eventually arrives at the same uncomfortable discovery: the sources disagree, they fall silent, or they compress into a few lines of poetry what would have taken days or weeks of human effort to accomplish. The Calydonian Boar Hunt presented me with those three problems, and the most instructive

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Who Is Artemis in Atalanta of the Wild?

Who Is Artemis in Atalanta of the Wild?

Leave a Comment / May 25, 2026

Of all the gods of the Greek pantheon, Artemis is the one most commonly misread. Popular imagination has settled on her as a figure of cold severity, the virgin huntress, remote and punishing, more comfortable among animals than among people, quick to anger and slow to forgive. There is evidence for this reading in the

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Six Novels That Taught Me About Men

Six Novels That Taught Me About Men

Leave a Comment / May 24, 2026

There is a particular dishonesty that runs through a great deal of fiction written by and about men, a tendency to grant male characters the external architecture of complexity without the internal substance of it. Men in such novels have ambitions, rivalries, codes of honor, and moments of violence, but their inner lives remain largely

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Six Novels That Taught Me About Women

Six Novels That Taught Me About Women

Leave a Comment / May 24, 2026

I have spent a great deal of my writing life inside the minds of women. Atalanta, Elena, Pasiphaë, Costanza, Stella—the women of my novels are not secondary figures, not love interests arranged around a male protagonist. They are the story, or so much of it that the distinction barely holds. People sometimes ask me how

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Why Atalanta?

Why a Novel About Atalanta?

Leave a Comment / May 24, 2026

On Ovid, Myth, and Historical Imagination There is a question every novelist must answer, if only to themselves: why this story, and why now? For me the answer arrived not gradually but all at once, in the final lines of a myth I had known for years without truly seeing. Ovid tells Atalanta‘s story across

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The Art of the Archaic: How I Choose Words and Expressions

The Art of the Archaic: How I Choose Words and Expressions

Leave a Comment / May 23, 2026

People sometimes ask me why I write the way I do. The question usually comes wrapped in a polite puzzlement, as if the asker suspects a rational explanation must exist but cannot quite locate it. Occasionally it comes less politely: “People don’t talk like that.” True enough. They didn’t talk like that even then, not

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BOOK REVIEW

Asterios and the Labyrinth | Reviewed by Grant Leishman for Readers’ Favorite

Leave a Comment / May 23, 2026

Asterios and the Labyrinth (Mythos of Knossos) by Edmond Thornfield transports readers back to the time of ancient Greek power, of mythical beasts, sorcerers, and the battle for royal succession. Upon the death of King Minos, his son Asterios must succeed to the throne before the various warlords tear the kingdom apart in their quest

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Perseus Flying on Pegasus to Mounta Apesas

Perseus and the Altar on Mount Apesas

Leave a Comment / May 22, 2026

There is a mountain that watches over the plain of Neméa from the north—flat-topped, unmistakable, rising above the valley with the quiet authority of a place that has been looked at for a very long time. I first saw it in April 2019, at the end of forty kilometers on a bicycle, with the Temple

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