Scott Oden

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Author of THE GRIMNIR SAGA, and the award-winning collection of S&S/heroic historicals, OLD GODS AND OTHER TALES. History geek, armchair antiquarian. He/him.

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Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your résumé? Robert E. Howard: “KNOW, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of . . ."

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Would anyone have -- or know where I might find -- a fairly detailed map of Rome's Campus Martius, circa 46 BC? BEFORE the spate of building that marked the space during the early Imperial era? Thanks, in advance!

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I love the narrative of the losing side. This is why I keep circling back to my manuscript on Darius III. There is great drama and melancholy in the shadow of Alexander . . .

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. . . at the point where it turned at right angles with its former course, and flowed westward to empty at last into the distant sea. So, Kuthchemes should be northeast of the bend of the Styx.

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People always put Kuthchemes in the wrong place. Per "Black Colossus": A few days' ride on camel-back to the southwest, as Shevatas knew, would bring the traveller within sight of the great river Styx . . .

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