Gary Corby is an Australian author of historical mysteries set in the world of

Classical Greece Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (the 5th and 4th centuries BC) in Ancient Greece,The "Classical Age" is "the modern designation of the period from about 500 B.C. to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C." ( Thomas R. Marti ...

. His novels feature historical figures from the time as recurring characters, notably

Socrates Socrates (; ; –399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no te ...

Pericles Pericles (; grc-gre, Περικλῆς; c. 495 – 429 BC) was a Greek politician and general during the Golden Age of Athens. He was prominent and influential in Athenian politics, particularly between the Greco-Persian Wars and the Pelopo ...

, and the priestess

Diotima of Mantinea Diotima of Mantinea (; el, Διοτίμα; la, Diotīma) is the name or pseudonym of an ancient Greek character in Plato's dialogue '' Symposium'', possibly an actual historical figure, indicated as having lived circa 440 B.C. Her ideas and doc ...

. The series hero is a fictional detective/agent named Nicolaos; the heroine is Diotima.

Published works

The Athenian Mysteries

#''The Pericles Commission'' (2010) #''The Ionia Sanction'' (2011) #''Sacred Games'' (2013) #''The Marathon Conspiracy'' (2014) #''Death ex Machina'' (2015) #''The Singer from Memphis'' (2016) #''Death on Delos'' (2017)

Awards and nominations

* Nominated for the

Ned Kelly Award The Ned Kelly Awards (named for bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime genres. They were established in 1996 by the Crime Writers Association of Australia to rewar ...

for Best First Novel in 2010, for ''The Pericles Commission''. * Winner of the 2008 Arthur Conan Doyle Prize for new fiction in the historical mystery category for the short story ''The Pasion Contract''.

References

External links

A Dead Man Fell from the Sky
Official website and blog. {{DEFAULTSORT:Corby, Gary 1963 births 21st-century Australian novelists Australian male novelists Australian mystery writers Australian historical novelists Living people Writers of historical fiction set in antiquity Writers of historical mysteries 21st-century Australian male writers