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	<title>Stephanie Dray</title>
	<link>http://www.stephaniedray.com</link>
	<description>Author of Historical Fiction &#38; Fantasy</description>
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		<title>Why there&#8217;s a Rape Scene in my Novel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The life of Cleopatra Selene is a story so unlikely that magic sometimes seems like the only explanation.
But that isn’t why I chose to include magical realism in my book. I included my heroine’s ability to commune with her goddess through bloody hieroglyphs and some dominion over the wind, because I wanted my novels to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephaniedray.com/2012/02/02/why-theres-a-rape-scene-in-my-novel/</link>
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		<title>2000 Years Later &amp; Homs (aka Emesa) is in the News Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m an American.
My country is only a few hundred years old.
My countrymen can be insular; even with jet planes the rest of the world seems very far away. And so, when we hear that a tank was captured by rebel forces in Homs it may not register as part of our collective experience. In that, I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephaniedray.com/2012/02/01/2000-years-later-homs-aka-emesa-is-in-the-news-again/</link>
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		<title>The Roman Princess Diaries: Being the Daughter of Augustus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The star of my new novel, SONG OF THE NILE, is Cleopatra Selene. However, another young woman plays a very prominent role, and that is Julia, the daughter of Rome’s first emperor. Though their parents were mortal enemies, in my novel, the two teenaged girls form a strong bond of friendship.

On the surface, they don’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephaniedray.com/2012/01/31/the-roman-princess-diaries-being-the-daughter-of-augustus/</link>
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		<title>Which Bad Girl of the Ancient World are you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the favorite presentations I give is entitled Bad Girls of the Ancient World. I love to give this talk, because most of the powerful women in the ancient world have some sort of relation to the heroine of my novel, Cleopatra Selene. 
Selene wasn’t, herself, a bad girl. At least, she was never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephaniedray.com/2012/01/26/which-bad-girl-of-the-ancient-world-are-you/</link>
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		<title>Livia Drusilla: Evil Empress or Maligned Mother of the Empire?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In ancient history powerful women got a bad rap. This was especially the case for Rome’s first empress, Livia Drusilla, the wife of Augustus Caesar. She comes down to us as a sort of wicked step-monster of the Julio-Claudian family&#8211;one who murders, manipulates and maligns everyone who gets in her way. The ancient writers didn’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stephaniedray.com/2012/01/24/livia-drusilla-evil-empress-or-maligned-mother-of-the-empire/</link>
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