Yep. Generally with a copy of The King Must Die open on my lap for reference material, since Mary Renault's version of the classical world made me very happy when I first encountered it. That, and I had seen enough of Kassandra not to be so foolish as to think I could live up to that standard.

One of these days I'm going to have to find some more pictures of his adult PB with a shirt on. I picked an Olympic swimmer out and it's damned hard to find anything of him in clothes other than 'Olympic team zip-up jacket' or 'swimsuit'. And then I'm going to have to bring him in in his twenties.