In my attempts to make my work in progress more authentic, the bibliography has had a few extra titles added to it:

• Stoicism for Beginners by Kevin Garnett
• Literature and Religion in Ancient Rome by Dennis Feeney
• Infamy: The Crimes of Ancient Rome by Jerry Toner
• Roman Religion by John Scheid
• The Religious Experience of the Roman People W. Warde Fowler
• De Brevitate Vitae by Lucius Seneca (If Gaius probably read it, then so should I!)

Oh my! Now I need to add in some of Cassius Dio’s embellishments for dramatic effect when I get the manuscripts back from my loyal beta readers!

For now, it is simply relief to have finished the first draft and to be able to take a short break before the editing process begins.

Please enjoy some photos that I took whilst in Caesarea in Israel (where the story progresses to in one of later novels) until then 🙂