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The story revolves around Kratos, a Spartan warrior, who sets on his quest to defeat the Olympian gods – in revenge for their actions against him in the previous installments. (see the God of War and God of War II entries for more info)The game opens with Kratos’s famous words that ended God of War II: “Zeus! Your son has returned. I bring the destruction of Olympus!” The warrior marches to Olympus atop Gaia, along with her fellow Titans saved with the power of the Fates,(...)

electronic

YEAR: 2010

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Aeacus Aphrodite Apollo Athena/ Athene Battle of the Gods Battle of the Titans Boreas Centaur Cerberus Chimera Cyclops / Cyclopes Daedalus Epimetheus Fate Gaia / Gaea Golden Fleece Gorgon Gorgon Eye Hades Harpies Helios Hephaestus Hera Heracles / Herakles Hercules Hermes Hippocampi Hyperion Icarus Icarus Wings Kratos Kronos / Cronus / Cronos Minos Minotaur Mount Olympus Nemean lion Oceanus Olympians Olympus Pandora Pandora’s Box Persephone Perseus Pirithous / Perithious Poseidon Poseidon's Trident Rhadamanthus Satyr Scorpion Sirens Sisters of Fate The Three Judges Titanomachy Underworld Warfare Zeus

Joan Holub, Suzanne Williams

Goddess Girls (Series, Book 24): Eos the Lighthearted

Eos is the 11 year old goddess girl of dawn. Eos attends a mortal middle-school, where she is the only immortal. Her best friend is the mortal Tithonus (from a royal Trojan family) who is obsessed with insects. Eos’ story follows a few story lines: Eos is invited to celebrate the commemoration of the statue of Nyx, goddess girl of the night, at Artemis temple and thus she spends time with the Mount Olympus Academy girls. During this time, Aphrodite becomes jealous of her since she thinks E(...)

literary

YEAR: 2018

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Aphrodite Artemis Athena/ Athene Hyperion Nyx Tithonus Zeus

Joan Holub, Craig Phillips, Suzanne Williams

Heroes in Training (Series, Book 4): Hyperion and the Great Balls of Fire

This is the fourth book in the Heroes in Training series (see entry about Heroes in Training- Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom). In this installment the Olympians must fight the Titan Hyperion and retrieve the mysterious Olympic torch. Under Hyperion’s rule, the sun is burning even brighter than normal and scorching everything and everyone in northern Greece. The Olympians themselves are forced to play a sizzling “game” of “Dodge the Sunbursts” as Hyperion(...)

literary

YEAR: 2013

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Cronus Delphi Hades Hera Hestia Hyperion Oceanus Oracles Poseidon Sirens Theia

Kate O’Hearn

Pegasus (Series, Book 5): The Rise of the Titans

This is the fifth book in the Pegasus series, which follows the adventures of Emily, a mortal girl from New York who one day discovers wounded Pegasus on her rooftop. Via various adventures, Emily travels from Earth to Olympus and discovers that she is not mortal, but a divinity known as the flame of Olympus. With the help of her mortal and Olympian friends, Emily tries to maintain peace in both worlds. In the last book, Emily discovered she is actually a remnant of an ancient and wise race name(...)

literary

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Chiron Diana Hyperion Jupiter Neptune Pegasus Pluto Saturn Venus Vesta

Kate O’Hearn

Pegasus (Series, Book 6): The End of Olympus

This is the sixth and final book in the Pegasus series, which follows the adventures of Emily, a mortal girl from New York who one day discovers a wounded Pegasus on her rooftop. In the previous book, Emily and her friends went to Hawaii and later Emily and the Xan Riza who lived inside of her were separated into two different bodies. Lorin, the Titan who also inherited part of Riza’s Xan powers returned to Olympus with them and Emily must teach her how to control her powers with compassio(...)

literary

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Cupid Diana Hyperion Jupiter Pegasus Saturn Urania Vulcan