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General Acknowledgements
Writing books
is supposed to be a solitary pursuit, but we have each other in this
endeavor. This significantly improves the quality and helps us through the
rough spots, for somehow what neither could manage on her own we nevertheless
achieve as a team. It’s also much more fun when you have someone else who
immediately appreciates what it must have taken to build the walls around
Thebes, or the thrill of locating a monument in Turkey, or with whom you can
argue about when the Trojan War really
happened.
But there are
a lot of other people who have supported us while we worked on – and continue
to work on – this series of novels – and we want to mention them below.
Alice's Thank-Yous!
I’d
like to thank Rachel Cook and Margaret Kuczynski
for reading drafts of Iokaste and providing welcome feedback and
encouragement. Thanks also to many others for advice and support along the
way: Barbara Beer, Sylvia Blume, Wendy Erisman, Dan
Guller, Maria Kovas, Steven Saylor, Alice Tasman,
Brooks White, and Catherine Yoes.
And to
Mark Kimmey for the support, encouragement, love,
and inspiration he gives me – “thank you” doesn’t even scratch the surface.
Victoria's Thank-Yous!
First and
foremost I want to thank my family: my husband, Johann Rafelski, who has
supported my historical fiction research by watching countless documentaries
with me and who has accompanied me to both Greece and to Turkey and to many
museums. Susanne Rafelski is generally one of my first readers on a new
manuscript and her feedback is invaluable, while Marc has made excellent
technological suggestions.
Next I need to
thank Vassilis Aravantinos,
the director of the Archaeological Museum at Thebes. After somewhat uncertain
communication by fax, I showed up at the museum door one morning. He let me
paw through his library, showed me the most recently discovered shards with
Linear B on them, and then drove me around Thebes. Among the sites we visited
were the hill where Amphion was apparently buried, the royal tombs allegedly
belonging to Eteokles and Polynikes, the spring in which Oedipus washed off
the blood after killing Laius, Dirke’s fountain – also the site where Kadmos
slew Ares’ dragon – and the area where the Sphinx was supposed to roam. That
day remains in my memory as one of my all-time favorites.
Others
also helped the book as it was being written. Ancus Roehr
obligingly decided that our group of friends should sail from Athens rather
than Plymouth, when I objected, “But my novel’s set in Greece!” Beate Kohl
drove around with me to various archaeological sites, listened to me speak
for hours on the subject, and even read early drafts. Many others listened,
read, and gave encouragement: Paul Lacko, Ralf Juergens, Anja Harder, Marcie
Grossack, Marshall Grossack, Irvin Grossack, Andrew Gallacher
and Jennifer Torneden.
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Blundell, Women in Ancient Greece, British Museum Press, 1995.
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Links We Like
Parada's
Greek Mythology Link: A
tremendously detailed resource, and we want to thank Carlos Parada personally for all his work – his was the first
in-depth website that we found.
The Theoi
Project: this
website has wonderful information about the temples devoted to various gods
and information on plants and herbs of the past.
Maps of Ancient Greece: Maps of ancient Greek world. Incredible detail!
Visiting
Archaeological Sites in Greece: If you want to visit archaeological sites in
modern day Greece. Named after Pausanias, the Roman who created the original
tour guide scrolls
NS Gill's Blog at About.com: This website, a part of the New
York Times company, contains news about the ancient world.
A Don's Life: Mary Beard’s blog about adventures
of teaching the classics.
The Teaching Company: This has great sets of
lectures by many professors on all sorts of subjects – we’ve watched nearly
all the lecture sets on ancient Greece and archaeology. Yes, you have to pay,
but this is great value for the money (as long as you wait for your course to
be on sale).
Steven
Saylor's website: Contains
a list of historical fiction books relating to ancient Greece and ancient
Rome.
Writing-World: A website for writers, where Victoria has a column
on “Creating Fabulous Fiction.”
Coffeehouseforwriters: A website for writers, offering on-line writing
courses by Victoria on the how-to's of writing
historical fiction, creating character and structure in fiction.
David Sheppard's Oedipus blog: A modern Pausanias, David Sheppard’s blog about
his travels in Greece lets people know what the ruins are like today. He is
also giving us permission to use one of his photos as a reference for Antigone & Creon: Guardians of Thebes.
Steve Lampasona's
On-line Art Gallery: Visit
the website of the artist who created the original cover art for Iokaste,
the earlier version of the book.
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