Rob Edmunds's Blog

June 28, 2023

Sophonisba: The second most famous person in history.

This is a really wonderful youtube video which is predominantly about the heroine of my novels, Sophonisba. The main assertion within it is that she should, given the amount of surviving artworks about her, be regarded a...

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Published on June 28, 2023 03:08

November 18, 2022

Audiobook release

The first of my two novels about Masinissa has now been released on Audible and iTunes. The sequel is in production and will also be available in a couple of weeks. They've both been narrated by Paul Metcalfe, whose best...

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Published on November 18, 2022 02:18

April 22, 2021

Numidian rivals

One of the most interesting things I learnt from writing my novels about Masinissa was the rivalry that existed between the two Numidian kingdoms at the time of the Second Punic War. Geographically, the kingdom of Masaes...

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Published on April 22, 2021 13:33

March 2, 2021

Masinissa in French, Masinissa en Fran��ais

The first chapter of my debut novel, Masinissa: Ally of Carthage has been very kindly translated by my friend Remi Jalabert and is availabe below. Hopefully in the future both of my novels about Masinissa will be transla...

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Published on March 02, 2021 06:02

July 21, 2020

Masinissa: Ally of Carthage

This is the cover for my first novel Masinissa: Ally of Carthage. It is the first part of the story of the experiences of the Numidian Prince Masinissa during the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage. He entered t...

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Published on July 21, 2020 06:04

June 24, 2020

The very old and very empty library at Ephesus

I think I'll start with one of my favourite images from my twitter feed. It's also one of the places in the world I would most like to visit. It's the ruined remains of the library of Celsus in Ephesus. It was built in t...

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Published on June 24, 2020 10:28