Can you REALLY learn from Historical Fiction? I have recently read many articles which challenge the value of historical fiction, claiming that people can not in fact learn anything about history from reading Historical fiction or that what they learn is wrong and I want to take the opportunity to respond to that accusation. Certainly,…

I have always believed water to be the most powerful of elements. It washes away a multitude of sins. The blood of an army thousands strong can be rinsed away, cleansed, leaving pure white sand where once ten long years worth of battles stained the shore red. Water never remains in one place, always, always…

Part 3. Destined to be Empress, Vipsania Agrippina Major (Agrippina the Elder) was the daughter of Augustus’ only child Julia and his trusted General Agrippa. When her father died her mother was forced to remarry Tiberius, her stepbrother, a man she loathed and openly rebelled against until she was exiled to the island of Pandateria,…

Part 2. First Empress of Rome, though she never went by that title, Livia Drusilla’s rise to power began when the young woman was noticed by the victorious Imperator Octavian, nephew and heir of Julius Caesar. It was an unlikely match, she was the daughter and wife of his enemies and heavily pregnant with her…