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Age of Mythology

In Age of Mythology users play as one of three ancient civilizations (Greek, Egyptian or Norse), and guide their people from the paucity of the Archaic Age to the cultural and military brilliance of the Mythic Age. Starting with a small settlement, players collect resources – Food, Wood, Gold and divine Favour – that enable them to erect buildings, train soldiers, and research new technologies to strengthen their civilization. The overall aim is to defeat rival players by either dest(...)

electronic

YEAR: 2002

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Athena/ Athene Bestiary Chiron/Cheiron Egyptian mythology Greek mythology Kronos / Cronus / Cronos Loki Norse mythology Olympus Osiris Penelope Poseidon Set Thor Troy

Weng Chen (Jade), Carolyn Hennesy

Mythic Misadventures (Series, Book 2): Pandora Gets Vain

This is the second installment in a series of books called Mythic Misadventures that takes the classic story of Pandora’s box and gives it a young, adventurous, partly contemporary twist – Pandora is Prometheus’ thirteen-year-old daughter. Carrying on from Pandora Gets Jealous, the young protagonists Pandora (Pandy), Alcie and Iole travel to Alexandra to find the second evil, vanity, to be put back into Pandora’s Box. Like male Greek heroes before them, such as Herac(...)

literary

YEAR: 2008

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Aeolus Cleopatra Crete Egypt Egyptian mythology Eye of Horus Gladiators Greek mythology Hera Hermes Homer Nepthys Osiris Pandora Pandora’s Box Pharaoh Prometheus Tutankhamun Zeus

Terence (Terry) David John Pratchett

Pyramids

Pyramids is set in the fictional Djelibeybi (or the Djel), the tiny, powerless remains of an empire whose only importance is as a strategic block between its neighbours, Tsort and Ephebe. Pteppic/Teppic, the crown prince, has been training at the Assassin’s Guild in Ankh-Morpork. Returning to the kingdom following his father’s death, Teppic discovers that he has no real power, and the real ruler is Dios, the ancient high priest. After an unfortunate series of misunderstandings in whi(...)

literary

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Aesop Ancient Religious Practices Aristophanes Aristotle Athens Cleopatra Democracy Egypt Egyptian mythology Founding Legends Greek mythology Greek philosophy Homer Plato Ptolemaic Egypt Pythagoras Roman mythology Sacrifice Sparta Sphinx Symposium Thermopylae Trojan Horse (wooden) Trojan War Warfare Xeno

Marcin Szczygielski

The Heart of Nephthys [Serce Neftydy]

In the distant future, people cannot live on Earth any longer as it has supposedly been transformed into a dead planet. It is called “Duat” – which was the name of the realm of the dead in ancient Egyptian mythology (ancient Egypt is highly in fashion in the future human culture described in the book). The protagonist, seventeen-year-old Effi, and his mother live on a spaceship, as the boy’s genetic material does not match the so-called “federation pattern.” E(...)

literary

YEAR: 2017

COUNTRY: Poland

TAGS: Centaurides Centaurs Cerberus Duat Egyptian mythology Faun Hermaphroditus/Hermaphroditos Hybrids Isis Nephthys

Neil Gaiman

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

The Ocean at the End of a Lane is narrated in first person by an unnamed protagonist who, as an adult, comes back to his hometown to attend a funeral. Initially unable to find anything which would bring back his memories about childhood, he involuntarily visits the Hempstock farm, where three women lived in the past: a little girl who used to be his friend, her mother and grandmother. There, he meets one of them – here the readers may be confused, for the woman might be Ginnie (the mother)(...)

literary

YEAR: 2013

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Atropos Clotho Egyptian mythology Fates Greek mythology Hathor Lachesis Moirai Narcissus Norse mythology Parcae Ra Skuld Triple Goddess Urðr Verðandi