In his 1957 hit song, All Shook Up, Elvis Presley speaks of his girlfriend as his “buttercup.” I guess his songwriters didn’t know that...

“He left without saying anything further, but the way he looked at me as he did, and the way he looked at Molly, gave me the greatest...

Many Roman men wore toupees of human hair to cover their baldness. Unlike a woman’s wig, toupees were made to look natural. Judah’s...

There are twelve features in this stereotypical image that are commonly associated with a pirate. Take a minute and see whether you can...

Last month Book Daily published my blog on how physical actions enable the reader to imagine your scene more vividly. For example: When...

The peristyle is an interior garden bound by evenly spaced columns that support a shady roofed portico over a stone walkway. In Miriam’s...

Rather than as a place for contemplation or inspiration or as a place to represent or control nature, the purpose of a Roman garden was...

Despite Plutarch and other ancient historians’ accounts, modern toxicologists challenge the notion that Cleopatra died from the bite of...

A reader of my blog of September 20, focusing on the tufts of dungs, puddles of excrement, and medallions of phlegm that blotched the...

Alexander the Great died in Babylon at the age of 32 after suffering ten days of a high fever. Theories concerning the cause of his death...