To Live the Good Life

To Live the Good Life is a story set largely in ancient Athens in the last three years of her independence, 324-322 BC. The novel features such worthies as Aristotle, Demosthenes, Hyperides, and the celebrated, mysterious courtesan, Phryne, whose beauty inspired the famous statue of Aphrodite by the sculptor, Praxiteles. In the course of the story Aristotle and Phryne offer definitive statements about essential components of the good life. Dr. Curtis is also the author of Arsinoe's Journal, a novel about Arsinoe II, Queen of Egypt between 278 and 270 BC. At present, is at work on a third novel, Zeno Arising, a story that deals with the life of an eighteen-year-old gladiator in ancient Pergamum in the year 161 AD.