of his life in his own words. The Minotaur: A Love Story, is about Asterion (the Minotaur’s real name), condemned by his father King Minos to a life in the terrible labyrinth. He falls in love with one of the victims sent by Minos into his caverns to die, and together they escape the prison and begin life together. Socrates’ Wife is a “memoir” by Socrates’ wife, Xanthippe, who tells the story of her own life — how she met and married Socrates, and what it was like to know many of Socrates’ famous pupils, like Plato, Xenophon and Antisthenes. Finally, Helen: The Memoirs of Helen of Troy, is a novel in which Helen tells the story of her life — marrying Menelaus, falling in love with Paris, enduring the Trojan War, and returning to Sparta.
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stories inspired by florida and By the ancient world.
I’m a retired English and philosophy teacher currently based in Calistoga, CA, who has turned to writing full time. My Midge Sumpter mysteries are set in a fictional county in the northern Florida pine and palmetto forests called Wassahatchka. Midge is a young black deputy sheriff who solves crimes with insight and persistence. Together with her partner Jake Leon, she tackles the most difficult cases in her small town.
My newer series is about figures from both the myths and the realities of the ancient world. These novels are currently pending publication, so they might soon be in your local bookstore! The Cyclops is the personal account of Polyphemus, the cyclops of The Odyssey, who tells the story