You are welcome to call me Erik Jensen, Dr. Jensen, or just Erik.

Note that I use the Scandinavian pronunciation of my last name (sounds like “Yensen”).

Permission is granted to freely use the accompanying author photograph for promotional or press purposes so long as it is credited © Eppu Jensen.

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Erik Jensen is a historian of the ancient Mediterranean. His scholarly work focuses on cross-cultural interactions in antiquity. He also writes fantasy in historically-inspired settings.

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Erik Jensen is a former professor of ancient Mediterranean history who now lives and writes in Finland. His scholarly work focuses on cross-cultural interactions in antiquity. His fiction is primarily fantasy, often adventurous and light-hearted, set in historical settings or history-inspired secondary worlds.

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Erik Jensen is a former professor of ancient Mediterranean history at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts, USA. His scholarly work focuses on interactions between people of different cultures in the ancient Mediterranean world, with a particular focus on relations between Greeks and the Persian Empire, and between the Roman Empire and northern Europe. His fiction is primarily fantasy, often adventurous and light-hearted, set in historical settings or history-inspired secondary worlds. Together with his wife, Eppu, he blogs about history, pop culture, and assorted other things at co-geeking.com.