{"id":228,"date":"2013-04-24T20:22:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T00:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/?p=228"},"modified":"2013-04-24T20:22:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T00:22:56","slug":"amwriting-research-is-writing-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"AmWriting: Research is writing, too!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It helps that I love all things ancient Rome; I’ve spent almost as much time researching my MUSES OF ROMA series as I have writing it. From books to web sites to pod casts to multiple viewings of the HBO series Rome<\/em> (both seasons)<\/a>, I’ve covered a lot. <\/p>\n

Obviously I’ve barely scratched the surface of all the available material, but here are some of the resources I found helpful and\/or interesting during my research.<\/p>\n

The Rise of Rome by Anthony Everitt<\/a>
\nConcise and entertaining history of how Rome went from a backwater trading post in 800 BCE to the world’s greatest empire in 1 AD.<\/p>\n

Ancient Rome by Simon Baker<\/a>
Looking for an overview of Rome’s entire history? This book covers the entire history of the Roman Empire, from its mythical origens to the abdication of the last Emperor in 476 AD. <\/p>\n

Roma by Steven Saylor<\/a>
It’s Everitt’s Rise of Rome<\/em> meets a John Jakes novel. Roma<\/em> follows two Roman families from the founding to the rise of Octavian Caesar Augustus. I took a lot of inspiration from this one.<\/p>\n

A Gladiator Only Dies Once by Steven Saylor<\/a>
Short stories about Gordianus the Finder, an ancient Roman private investigator. Great look at life in everyday ancient Rome.<\/p>\n

History of Rome Podcasts by Mike Duncan<\/a>
Better than the college history courses I took on the subject! Mike is passionate about Rome and he knows his stuff.<\/p>\n

Nova Roma: Choosing a Roman Name<\/a>
Lots of Roman names in my books, of course, and I would’ve been lost without this web site’s explanations of Roman naming customs and lists of common Roman family names, first names, and nicknames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It helps that I love all things ancient Rome; I’ve spent almost as much time researching my MUSES OF ROMA series as I have writing it. From books to web sites to pod casts to multiple viewings of the HBO series Rome (both seasons), I’ve covered a lot. Obviously I’ve barely scratched the surface of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,38,28,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amwriting","category-muses-of-roma","category-novels","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteinerauthor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}