Posted by: Crystal King on: February 26, 2008
I am very excited about this book coming out soon!!!
LeGuin, one of my favorite writers, decided to tackle one of my current favorite places–ancient Italy. She’s delving back even further than I am in my book about Apicius, however, giving voice to Lavinia, who is unspoken in Virgil’s famous epic.
From Publisher’s Weekly: In the [...]
Posted by: Crystal King on: September 21, 2007
Cena Apicius is a working title for a historical fiction novel about the life of Marcus Gavius Apicius, a wealthy Roman noble who lived in the early first century. Very little is known about him save for snippets of information left behind in works by Seneca, Tacitus, Pliny the Elder and others. He was [...]
Posted by: Crystal King on: September 7, 2007
Cena Apicius is a working title for a historical fiction novel about the life of Marcus Gavius Apicius, a wealthy Roman noble who lived in the early first century. Very little is known about him save for snippets of information left behind in works by Seneca, Tacitus, Pliny the Elder and others. He was [...]