Cover reveal for a new edition of "Diomedes in Kyprios" by Gregory Michael Nixon - designed by White Rabbit Arts at The Historical Fiction Company
Blurb:
An ancient historical fiction novel set during the Bronze Age collapse on Kyprios (Cyprus). Who shall Diomedes give his love to, Lieia the Queen or Aphrodite the Goddess? Who should he kill, Kinyras the High Priest or Agapenor the Arkadian?
Bio:
Gregory Michael Nixon read Homer’s Iliad at 15 while throwing bales for the summer on his uncle’s hereford ranch in Saskatchewan, Canada. Homer’s hero, Diomedes, became wedged in his mind as a heroic ideal, but he was troubled for his story was incomplete. Ever since, he has been drawn to ancient myth and history. He put this interest aside to become a high school teacher for ten years until he left a wife and a house behind to pursue higher education. He attained a doctorate in philosophy from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and spent about a decade as a peripatetic university professor in the USA, shedding another wife and house in that time. He returned to Canada again to attend to his dying father and become a professor at a university in northern British Columbia for thirteen years. As an academic, he published a numerous research papers in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and consciousness studies. One of his more cited papers is “Myth and Mind: The Origin of Human Consciousness in the Discovery of the Sacred,” which indicates his central philosophic position. His third wife and third house slipped through his hands, so he retired to rent a cottage in the hills above scenic Okanagan Lake and live only with his grey cat, Nigel. There, he found he still had the creative imagination to at long last begin writing his mythicohistorical novels on the post-Troy adventures of Diomedes set during the Bronze Age Collapse. The Diomedeia: Diomedes, the Peoples of the Sea and the Fall of the Hittite Empire (2022) came first, and Diomedes in Kyprios (2024), set mainly on the island of Cyprus, soon followed. Will there be a trilogy that brings Diomedes back to Hellas (Greece)?
or at the author's website at www.authorgregorynixon.com
Praise for "The Diomedeia" (Book One)
"The book is thoroughly researched and the author clearly knows his ancient history. The myths and poems of Homer resound in this epic adventure that kept me spellbound and intrigued. The book sets the stage slowly introducing the main cast of wonderfully developed characters and weaves together the various stories and perspectives into an epic adventure placing Diomedes, that great overshadowed hero of The Iliad, at the centre of the action and romance."
—L. Farrell, Amazon UK
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