The vitality of the myths is due in large part to the excellence of the literature itself, much of it first written down in Golden Age Athens or Augustinian Imperial Rome, two brief eras that represent the greatest heights of classical civilization. My debut novel, The Immortals, follows Artemis, the Greek Goddess of the Hunt, as she tracks a serial killer through Manhattan, solving mysteries both ancient and modern along the way.Īrtemis and her Olympian family may exist only in our imaginations, but to the people of antiquity-and to those of us still moved by their stories-they seem very much alive. The stirring tales of gods and heroes, battles and quests, continue to inspire many authors today, myself included. The epics of Homer, written some 2800 years ago, became the Western world’s first adventure stories.
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