Photo: Pam Sphar
Visiting the Trebia River in northern Italy, site of Hannibal's first great defeat of the Romans.

I live in Colorado with my wife Pam and two cats: Striper and Tippy, both of whom, with their recently martyred brother Sydney and the also recently-martyred most-beloved sweetheart Buji-San, have helped me write the book, especially Buji and Pam.

Our home sits on a mountainside overlooking the central Rocky Mountains, a most congenial place to write.

I've spent five years writing Against Rome, which entailed lots of research, building a considerable library on the ancient world, traveling to Italy twice and England once (lots of Roman sites, and the books are in English, though I do have a few in Italian or Italish).

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