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Originally appeared on Elisabeth Storrs December 5, 2021 I’m so delighted to welcome fellow ancient world writer, Zenobia Neil, this month. Zenobia was born with a shock of red hair and named after an ancient warrior woman who fought against the Romans. In college, she studied Ancient Greece, Voodoo, and world mythology. She writes historical fantasy about the mythic past and Greek and Roman gods having too much fun. Ariadne Unraveled, a retelling of the Ariadne myth, is her

Originally published by The Historical Fiction Company April 2023 There have been so many mythic retellings and reimaginings of stories recently, and I am all for it. I love the new novels coming out looking at mythology from different perspectives. I love the TV shows that redo a popular novel or earlier TV show, even the comic book worlds that keep coming in different waves, telling us old stories in new ways. I have friends who don’t care for some reimaginings. They don’t

We all know that history has been written by the victors. Those who recorded history and the texts that survived determine what stories we know and what stories we don’t. Recorded history also determines who is portrayed as the hero and who as the villain. But as writers and readers of historical fiction, we get to look beyond the traditional tales of history to see new historical perspectives. What we think we know versus what actually happened in history is problematic for