Light of the Gods

AUTHOR’S NOTE

AUTHOR’S NOTE‘Marriage by Consent’ or ‘Irregular Marriage’ was completely legal in Scotland until 1919. Many people were married that way and some were trapped.

The quotations that the heroine reads to the Duke are from The Splendours of Greece by Robert Payne.

This book has entranced and inspired me more than any other book on Ancient Greece and to quote Robert Payne,

“The splendour of Greece still lights our skies, reaching over America and Asia and land that the Greeks never dreamed existed. There would be no Christianity as we know it without the fertilizing influence of the Greek Fathers of the Church, who owed their training to Greek philosophy and we owe to the Greeks the beginning of science and the beginning of thought. They built the greatest Temples ever made, carved marble with delicacy and skill and set in motion the questioning mind which refuses to believe that there are any bounds to reason.”