Robin E. Levin live in San Francisco, California. She graduated from U.C. Berkeley in Anthropology and Zoology and made a living as a medical technologist until her recent retirement. Her interest in ancient history goes back to childhood. Her published works include The Death Of Carthage, Sempronia the Sister of the Gracchi, and Maximus, Warts and All. She maintains a website: http: /www.thedeathofcarthage.com where she blogs about matters of ancient history and reviews historical fiction and non fiction books.