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...

Unlike today, fashions were slow to change in the Ancient World. Without steel needles, sewing was a difficult craft. The women had a few...

Wanna get along better in Roman Alexandria? One way, of course, is to read the thrill-packed historical adventures in the Miriam bat...

According to some biologists, the smell of one person’s vomit can trigger vomiting in others. This reaction is regarded as an advantage...

Miriam would go to the agora, the central marketplace in Alexandria, just to see and be seen. She describes it for us in THE DEADLIEST...

A Roman cargo ship like the one Miriam and Phoebe took to Caesarea in THE DEADLIEST HATE (see my blog of April 14, 2015), the Thalia...

In THE DEADLIEST HATE, Miriam describes The Pegasus: The public room was virtually empty save for the ferocious flies. Strewn about the...