Yvonne Korshak's Blog

There an interview with me about PERICLES AND ASPASIA on National Public Radio station WSIU in Southern Illinois — and I have to say I love it. I got to say things that I really, truly mean, and that mean a lot to me. This is NPR station WSIU, in southern Illinois. https://www.wsiu.org/podcast/in-the-a... For...

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Aspasia, a courtesan from ancient Greece, and one of the most influential women of the ancient world, was the mistress of Pericles, leader of the Athenian democracy. In connection with the novel I wrote, PERICLES AND ASPASIA: A Story of Ancient Greece, I was asked to write an article about Aspasia for GIRLTALKHQ . The article is entitled, Novel Set In Ancient Greece Features Real Life Historical...

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Great for fans of: Christian Meier’s Athens: A Portrait of the City in its Golden Age, Mary Renault. “An insightful depiction of a passionate relationship.” Kirkus Reviews Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Booktopia, and on local online booksellers worldwide. Cape Sounion Athens as Aspasia Might Have Seen It...

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Logan Crawford featured my novel, PERICLES AND ASPASIA: A Story of Ancient Greece on his TV podcast, “Spotlight.” For those who would like to see it, here’s the link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?

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It was a pleasure being a recent guest on Philip Rowe’s podcast, The History of European Theatre! Our free ranging discussion covers ancient Greek theatre, Sophocles’ Antigone, and more. Listen here: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/7.... My new historical novel that was the starting point for our discussion is Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece...

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Great for fans of: Christian Meier’s Athens: A Portrait of the City in its Golden Age, Mary Renault. “An insightful depiction of a passionate relationship.” Kirkus Reviews Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Booktopia, and on local online booksellers worldwide. Cape Sounion Athens as Aspasia Might Have Seen It...

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Great for fans of: Christian Meier’s Athens: A Portrait of the City in its Golden Age, Mary Renault. Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Booktopia, and on local online booksellers worldwide. Cape Sounion Athens as Aspasia Might Have Seen It...

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Here’s a video of Pericles and Aspasia, also on YouTube I thank my publisher, Rushmore Press, for this video. To all who love archaeology, Greek theater, classical architecture, Greek philosophy, the ancient world, and historical novels. My novel, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece, has just been published. In this book, Pericles, the visionary of democracy...

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In a discussion of Sinclair Lewis’s novel, It Can’t Happen Here, written in 1935, one person said, “This could be about any dictatorship, couldn’t it? Is there anything particularly American about this dictatorship? I felt I had an answer but it took time to think it out. Here it is: I believe that what makes the book specifically American is Lewis’s use of the landscape.

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without enchantment … As You Like It is a wonderful play so that, even with this disappointing production, it’s not a wasted evening. The language is so powerful and some of the scenes so funny that they surpass the flat interpretations they receive here, and in particular two actors — André de Shields and Leenya Rideout – are satisfyingly perfect! But all in all, this is an As You Like It...

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