Comments on: Douglas Jackson, author of Caligula http://www.bookgeeks.co.uk/2009/02/21/the-bookgeeks-interview-douglas-jackson-author-of-caligula/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:25:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alexander Coldwell http://www.bookgeeks.co.uk/2009/02/21/the-bookgeeks-interview-douglas-jackson-author-of-caligula/comment-page-1/#comment-5084 Alexander Coldwell Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:04:40 +0000 http://www.bookgeeks.co.uk/?p=2058#comment-5084 I have started reading "Hero of Rome" by Doug Jackson and have found it promising so far. However, I was a little disconcerted, in view of his general adherence to Roman place-names, to find Hispania named as "Espana", the modern name for their country of the Spanish themselves. I was interested also to learn that he was brought up in Jedburgh, since until 1990 I lived in GlenDouglas house just 3 miles south of the town. I too am fascinated by the Romans and read the novels in the same genre of Valerio Massimo Manfredi and also correspond with him in Latin! For many years now I have been making a model of the Forum Romanum, and would be keen to send images of it to Mr. Jackson as e-mail attachments. If he is interested and is prepared to provide an e-mail address, that would be marvellous! Yours faithfully, Alexander N.S.Coldwell, Esq., M.A. I have started reading “Hero of Rome” by Doug Jackson and have found it promising so far. However, I was a little disconcerted, in view of his general adherence to Roman place-names, to find Hispania named as “Espana”, the modern name for their country of the Spanish themselves.
I was interested also to learn that he was brought up in Jedburgh, since until 1990 I lived in GlenDouglas house just 3 miles south of the town. I too am fascinated by the Romans and read the novels in the same genre of Valerio Massimo Manfredi and also correspond with him in Latin!
For many years now I have been making a model of the Forum Romanum, and would be keen to send images of it to Mr. Jackson as e-mail attachments. If he is interested and is prepared to provide an e-mail address, that would be marvellous!

Yours faithfully,
Alexander N.S.Coldwell, Esq., M.A.

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