A neat set of “how-to” drawings crossed my FB feed this morning, so I thought… let’s chat about skivvies! Mosaic of women exercising (the...

Glorious video taken by a drone. Several scenes in the Dominus saga take place within the great halls and spacious corridors of the...

New finds from a Scythian grave confirm the use of both opium and cannabis. I knew it! You’ll recall, if you’ve read Dominus, that...

This is a huge and complicated topic, but since characters in the Dominus series often refer to specific denominations of money, here are...

I’ve chatted about this topic before but I found a few more pictures to share. Lararium in the peristyle garden of the House of the...

Collection of Roman knucklebone playing pieces and two dice In the scene I’m currently penning, a group of youths play knucklebones. This...

We’ve seen them before in book 1, Dominus, but as I pen this “reading of the will” scene for Games of Rome I see that they pop up yet...

Now that we’ve reviewed a few of the major types of gladiators, we move on to some tidbits concerning the Roman army. In Dominus, the...

A very cool site from National Geographic. Trajan’s Column is, in fact, one of the very few sources we have for the events of the Dacian...

Wrapping up this fun scene: Gaius’s dinner with the imperial family. Pliny’s there. Marcia’s there. Damn, even Apollodorus showed up! 😀...

Assaults, roving gangs, drunken brawls, no street lamps, arson, flying chamber pots… No wonder Publius is scared to the leave the palace...

Last one… the net-thrower.  Chapter 6.2 from Games of Rome will be posted very soon. Gobs of Gaius snark and Marcia and Sabina and… 😀...

Third on our list…. the Secutor. “The first thing to note about the secutor is the name: meaning ‘chaser, pursuer’, it hints at the...

Since the next draft scene includes a contest between gladiators, I’m starting a new segment that highlights the basic equipment and...

Since the next draft scene includes a contest between gladiators, I’m starting a new segment that highlights the basic equipment and...

Hatra, founded by the Greek Seleucids in the 3rd-2nd centuries BC, became a major city of the mighty Parthian Empire, Rome’s greatest and...

artist’s drawing of the Roman city and fort of Singidunum Singidunum (modern Belgrade, Serbia) was the site of the main military camp of...

A combo tunnel and canal located in Seleucia in Pieria (modern Antakya in south-eastern Turkey) begun in the first century AD and...

Here’s a partial screen shot of the family tree (from Wikipedia) that includes Trajan, Hadrian, Plotina, Sabina, and other historical...

What did ancient Romans do with their non-perishable garbage? In the case of the amphorae that were used to transport oil from Spain to...