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Olympic torch lit at Olympia for 2022 Beijing Winter Games
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 Chinese capital...
‘Olympia’ receives another ringing endorsement…
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: "Olympia: The Birth of the Games" by Dr....
‘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...