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Fall for Savings this October!
Fall for Savings this October!
Click anywhere on the banner to download your copy today! It’s been about a month since my novel Roman Identity has been released for eBook and paperback. What better way to promote my newest release then to officially launch a free/99 cent promo for the eBook! Now that the free promo has ended, the eBook is on sale for only 99 cents today across multiple retailers including Amazon, Apple, B&N,…
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Before the Legend Going Free Again?
Before the Legend Going Free Again?
It’s been a long time from my last post. There’s a lot decisions to be weighed. With my new book: Roman Identity scheduled to be released later this summer, I didn’t want readers to forget the Legend that started it all. So this May I decided to share my debut middle-grade novelette Before the Legend to new readers for free. Of course there’s obvious benefits to running a free promotion…
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New Year. New Book!
New Year. New Book!
In my previous post, I talked about all the things I learned from self-publishing in 2020. This year I plan to take what I learned into my latest project. In 2021 I’m releasing the long-awaited sequel to Before the Legend entitled Roman Identity. Granted some readers may have already read the chapters for Roman Identity posted on Wattpad and FictionPress. Readers may not know that I have made a…
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Development of Trojan Ancestry
• 300s B.C. - Troy linked as Rome's mother city by late century • 200s-100s B.C. - Roma shown with Phrygian cap, sign of Trojan status • 205 B.C. - Cult of Cybele & Attis imported, enshrined in the southwest corner of the Palatine hill, overlooking the Circus Maximus • 100s B.C. - Battle paintings of conquered easterners feature in triumphal processions, iconography now negative • 45/46 B.C. - Julius Caesar “revives” the lusus troiae, an equestrian parade and mock battle staged by patrician youths in the Circus Maximus; their garb mimicked priests of the cult of Cybele • 2 B.C. - Fixed iconography for Aeneas and Ascanius emerges. Aeneas as a contemporary Roman general in full armor, Ascanius as an easterner with trousers and cap. The costume was confined to children in public displays, and Aeneas never shown in it until late antiquity.
Rose, C.B. "Forging Identity in the Roman Republic: Trojan Ancestry and Veristic Portraiture." Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 7. (2008)
