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‘Olympia’ in the running for its first international literary award Short List…
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 'Olympia' on the Long List (top 25...
Why is ‘Olympia: The Birth of the Games’ written as historical fiction rather than history?
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 twin-fold. Firstly, as can be...
Greece leads the Parade of Nations at Tokyo 2020
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 2020 stadium...
Official ‘Olympia’ book launch a resounding success…
Despite an imminent lockdown, fated to start only a few hours after the end of the launch event, the official book launch for 'Olympia: The Birth of the Games' at Melbourne's gorgeous Hellenic Museum went off with a real bang. Mountains of books were moved into the...