My awesome friend Anna Heim (Christadaelia for those of you on Deviant Art) is continuing her series of Olympia Heights portraits. Below is her latest work, a portrait of the surly Frank Guerrero, a reincarnation of Ares, god of War. If you like the art, consider buying something from her redbubble store. She specializes in…

You’ve heard all about Athena’s ferocious side, why Dionysus is the god of Theater, and how Hades came to be the one rolling in gold. Today we’re going to talk about Poseidon. When Hades, Zeus, and Poseidon (the three sons of Kronos) sat down to split dominions, Zeus got the sky and Hades got the…

I’m back with another little-known-domains post. Previously I told you all about how Dionysus came to be the God of theater and how Athena is not just a brainiac, but a warrior. Today’s post is about Hades, Lord of the Dead, and how he’s not just the god of the underworld. Hades, Lord of the…

 The Greek Gods all have one domain that they are known for more than others. This is the first in a series of short posts about the lesser-known domains of the Gods. Hopefully these will be interesting to my readers who want to understand more about my characters. Teddy Wexler is Dionysus in Olympia Heights….

If you’ve followed my first series, Olympia Heights, you are aware that every chapter is made up of two parts: an ode (labeled with a lowercase roman numeral) and an episode (labeled with uppercase roman numerals). The episode is the normal chapter and the ode is a piece of non-rhyming verse. For the very observant, you’ve noticed…

My college room mate is working on a beautiful series of illustrations for Olympia Heights. The first, which is available on Redbubble for sale as an iPhone case or print, was of Lewis Mercer (Hermes). Here is the second piece, a portrait of Zach Jacobs, the character on the cover of the first book.  …

My college room mate is working on a beautiful series of illustrations for Olympia Heights. The first, which is available on Redbubble for sale as an iPhone case or print, is of Lewis Mercer (Hermes). Indeed, it is the design on my iPhone case. Check out her shop at Redbubble!

If you own one of my books as a dead-tree version, you can look at the bottom corner of the back page and see a photograph of me with awesome Grecian eye makeup and olive leaves in my hair. That photo is from a reference image photoshoot by Terry Strickland for The Incognito Project. That…

★★★★☆ “Zeus granted immortality to two brothers and bound them to his service. Three thousand years later they serve him on Earth, hunting fugitives from Olympus, and maintaining balance and order between the human realm and the divine.” I picked up Olympus, written by Nathan Edmonson, art by Christian Ward, at the Alabama Phoenix Festival in Birmingham,…

Art has been inspired by classical mythology for hundreds of years. These are five artists who are being inspired today. 1. Terry Strickland (http://terrystricklandart.com/) Terry Strickland may be my mother in law, but that obvious bias doesn’t take away from the fact that she is an AMAZING artist and has been since long before I met…

Etymologists (people who study words and their histories) should be very familiar with Ancient Greek language and culture. Latin words make up about 50% of the English language, and the Romans borrowed their mythology from the Greeks. Greek words make up another estimated 5%. So what words and phrases come directly from Greek mythology? Here…

Ancient Greece has been a topic of fascination for artists and poets for hundreds of years. During the Renaissance, classical mythology became a favorite subject for the great thinkers of Europe. Myths have been translated and passed down, retold and embellished. In more recent history, archaeologists have excavated sites in Ancient Greek territories to discover…