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Since grade 7 reading Edith Hamilton’s *The Greek Way*, I have been drawn to ancient myth and history. I closely read Homer’s *Iliad* at 15 while throwing bales for the summer on my uncle’s Hereford ranch in Saskatachewan, Canada. Homer’s hero, Diomedes, entranced me, but I was troubled that, later in the book, Homer pushes him aside to focus on the psychopathic Achilles. I put these interests aside to become a high school teacher for ten years until the time came for me to leave wife and house behind to pursue higher education. I attained a doctorate in philosophy at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and spent about about a decade as a peripatetic university professor in the USA, shedding another wife and house in that time. I returned to Canada to attend to my dying father and became a professor at a university in northern British Columbia for thirteen years. As an academic, I published numerous research papers in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and consciousness studies. One of my more cited papers is “Myth and Mind: The Origin of Human Consciousness in the Discovery of the Sacred,” which indicates my central philosophic position. A third wife and third house slipped through my hands, so I retired to rent a cottage in the hills above scenic Okanagan Lake and live only with Nigel, a grey cat. Here, I found I still had the creative imagination to at long last begin writing the 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. The trilogy will soon be completed that brings Diomedes back to the Peloponnesus and on to southern Italy.
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