Lucia: A Tale of Roma Alia 28

April 8, 2020

Chapter 28 in my novel of a Vestal Virgin of Ancient Rome and her friendship with Julius Caesar. I expected …

Ajax, Cassandra and the Forbidden Fantasy

July 1, 2015

Is this painting erotic or horrifying? Magnetic or repellent? I ran across it one day while looking for images to illustrate …

January 1, 2015

Robert Lovelace, the antihero in Richardson’s voluminous epistolary novel Clarissa (1748), is the Arch-Rake, the granddaddy of all the dissipated, …