The main characters of Pantheon are twelve former gods of the Greeks and Romans. They have been living on earth, powerless but immortal, since humans stopped worshiping them at the start of the Middle Ages.
Find out more about the novel on its page: Pantheon
In early 1933, an inept theater company in a drab and weary Berlin is attempting to mount a production of Macbeth.
As scenery falls over, actors forget their lines, and everyone tries to figure out what exactly the antiquated words mean, the world changes outside. Hitler and his National Socialists come to power, and very quickly the brutal deeds of a fictional Scottish thane pale in comparison to those of the new Führer. Those who suddenly find themselves outlaws in their own country must now find a way to survive.
As it turns out, this Shakespeare fellow might actually have a thing or two to say about that.
Herr Macbeth is a full-length play available for reading or producing. Find it at this page.
Thebes vs. Athens (457 BCE) tells the story of two ancient Greek soldiers on opposite sides in a war who encounter each other in the forest, alone and cut off from their respective units. One is a member of the famous "Theban Band."
There is a lot of great fiction and poetry in this new literary journal, and if you would like your own copy, find it very reasonably priced at the Timberline Review's website or on Amazon.
This guidebook is designed for tourists and scholars who are interested in exploring firsthand the ruins of ancient Rome through a secular, Humanistic, and freethinking lens.
A second volume contains detailed entries on the collections of the Capitoline Museums, the Vatican Museums, the Museo Barracco, and the Palazzo Altemps, as well as two detailed day trips that are possible from the city center.
Now We Are Rome:
Ancient Roman torture on film, and modern American torture in the news
An article of mine about torture and its (changing) depiction in films about the ancient Romans, published on The Awl.
I look specifically at "The Sign of the Cross" (1932), "The Fall of the Roman Empire" (1964) and HBO's "Rome" (2005 & 2007). I also discuss the history of torture both in Rome and the US, and specifically about our troubling representation of torture in movies.
Wooster Footlights was a radio-comedy troupe founded in the ancient days of the early 1990s. They were all students at the College of Wooster in Ohio and broadcast their show on the colleges radio station WCWS every Friday.
This 2-hour show was a loose collection of skits, parodies, and music, with all original content written and performed by Footlights' members. Gary Devore was one of the writers and performers in this troupe.
A current academic work-in-progress is a scene-by-scene analysis of Frederico Fellini's strange version of the Satyricon. It focuses not only on what the director was attempting to say about ancient culture, but also his use of Roman history and culture to tell the bawdy story of Encolpius and his friends.
