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Purchase a copy of Changing Of The Gods on Amazon.Com  Changing of
the Gods: My first inspiration
for this novel came in 1970 when I visited Greece and traveled to
Corinth. To reach the ancient city, you must cross over a bridge
spanning the Corinth Canal that separates the Peloponnesian peninsula
from the rest of Greece. I was impressed, first with the construction,
but even more so when I learned that the Roman Emperor Nero had
commissioned the dig in 66 A.D.—but it wasn’t completed until 1893.
Why?—what was the holdup of 1,827 years? So I set out to fill in the
gaps using my imagination. I had the storyline fairly well in mind, but
was overwhelmed with the research that I knew was necessary to make my
novel historically accurate. My vocation just didn’t support my
avocation, so I set the novel aside. I went back to writing non-fiction
because that paid the bills, but the story fomented in my mind. |
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| Thanks to Al Gore, years later the Internet was born and
research became infinitely easier. Everything I wanted to know about
the Roman Empire was on a website somewhere. As a result, food,
clothing, furniture, buildings, palaces, housing, society, economy,
city descriptions, schooling, marriage, worship, gods and goddesses,
slaves, ships, jewelry, money, and names have been depicted accurately
in the book. Hundreds of hours were invested as I sought to resurrect
my story about ancient Corinth, as well as final trips to Rome and to
Corinth to confirm that I had captured the feel of the land. The book tells about two petty thieves, condemned to death in a Roman prison, who escape and make their way to Corinth where they devise a fraud to sell shares in a (phony) project to dig a canal across the isthmus. Later they are joined by a third criminal. They enlist Lucius, the son of the Legate (Roman general in charge of the legion) to sell these shares to wealthy family friends. The plan is so logical that the Proconsul Gallio sends Lucius to Rome to present it to the Emperor Nero. Nero, in turn, endorses the plan and comes to Corinth to place ceremoniously a shovel in the ground to begin the dig (a verified tidbit from history). And the story carries on from there. |
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