by John Martino | Oct 19, 2021 | Beijing Winter Games, Event
Some two months after the end of the very memorable 2020 / 2021 Tokyo Games, Olympia came back to life – with a sense of both its ancient and modern heritage – with the lighting of yet another Olympic torch: this time for the 2022 Beijing Games. The...
by John Martino | Sep 22, 2021 | Review
For the full review, head to ‘Midwest Book Review’, hit the ‘Historical Fiction Shelf’ and scroll down. The ‘Olympia’ review is listed second from the top in its category. It contains very approving passages like the following:...
by John Martino | Aug 12, 2021 | Event, Review
While ‘Olympia’ has only been in the global mind’s eye for little over a month, recognition of its merits are beginning to turn very positive. The judges of the Chaucer Award for all pre-1750 historical fiction have just just placed...
by John Martino | Aug 4, 2021 | History, Myth
The title question heading this blog piece has been asked more than once – if ‘Olympia’ is the previously untold story of how the first Olympics came into being, why haven’t the authors just told it as history? Well, the answer to that is...
by John Martino | Jul 24, 2021 | Event, History, Tokyo Games
As with every modern Olympics – except the 2004 Athens Games, where Greece had its flagbearer lead the procession and then brought up its entire team in the rear, the traditional position for hosting nations – Hellas proudly led the way across the Tokyo...
