In THE DEADLIEST LIE, Aunt Hannah tells Miriam about her mother’s visit to an astrologer: “When your mother felt life quicken inside her,...

Miriam tells us in THE DEADLIEST HATE that she as well as her colleagues in the Alchemical League would face certain death if the...

After greeting me and taking my himation, Amram’s narrow-eyed, wooden-faced, doorkeeper escorted me to a padded stone bench in the...

The Plain of Sharon is the central section of Israel’s Mediterranean Coast. For Isaiah, the Plain of Sharon was the ultimate symbol of...

The Dewey Decimal System was created by Melvil Dewey in 1876 while managing the Amherst College Library. Unlike Callimachus’s system,...

Callimachus’s most famous work is the Pinakes (meaning Tables), a 120-volume bibliographic survey of the authors who works were stored...

Miriam is overwhelmed by the size of the Library’s collection when her tutor, Hector [see my blog, “Miriam’s Tutor” of June 27, 2017],...

In The Deadliest Lie, Miriam introduces us to Amram, her father’s business partner and her prospective father-in-law, by comparing him to...

Alexandria was experiencing an unusually hot day, a perfect day, as Miriam said, to sit in the atrium, face the impluvium and sip ginger...

The bride in Ancient Rome wore no adornments that would detract from her engagement ring. The engagement ring signified that the couple...