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En el corazón del oscuro Tártaro, el alma del bribón Áfobo anhela alcanzar los Campos Elíseos.
Seguido de cuatro cuentos:
- El Portador del Fuego
- Asterión
- Dos ladrones y el templo de Artemisa Lusia
- Al alba de la humanidad
Patrice Martinez os invita a viajar. Una colección de cuatro relatos cortos para descubrir la vida social, religiosa y llena de aventuras de un gran pueblo, ¡los helenos!
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En el seno de una familia, a menudo podemos encontrar joyas de "gran valor" que pasan de una generación a la siguiente; pero en un hogar burgués de la bella Atenas, un regalo de valor incalculable va a causar no pocos tormentos a su propietario, un rico hombre de negocios ateniense. Una colección de diamantes puede esconder oscuros secretos que no siempre conllevan buenos auspicios...
"Una colección de diamantes muy codiciada" es una adaptación...
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Acrisios interrumpió su labor para mirar al animal favorito de la diosa Artemisa... Cerca de la ciudad de Ceranía, un pueblo de la región de Beocia, un modesto campesino trabajaba sus tierras. Pero un increible encuentro cambiará su destino y le mostrará un nueva forma de vivir su labor: ¡la viticultura!
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Dictyma de la ciudad de Aptera de Patrice Martinez Creta, cuna del señor Zeus y campo de juego del Minotauro. Pero la isla proporciona también sus pastos a la cabra Amaltea, la que ofreció sus ubres al futuro amo del Olimpo. Y la joven cabrera Dictima puede hablarle de su rebaño, al que aprecia tanto: sobre el carácter gruñón de una cabra o la ternura de otra… Pero el señor del Olimpo cuyos designios son misteriosos para el simple mortal,...
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The Gorgoneion is a weapon of terrible occult power. Fate sometimes offers men a chance at greatness – be they doctors, scholars, warriors, poets or even ordinary folk. But the laurels of glory often come at a price – as the young goatherd Epimenides finds out the hard way...
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Crete is the cradle of lord Zeus and the playground of the Minotaur. But the island also provided its pastures to the goat Amalthea, she who offered her udders to the future master of Olympus.
And the young goatherd Dictyma can speak to you about her herd which she is so fond of: the sour character of one goat or the tenderness of another. But the lord of Olympus, whose plans are mysterious to a simple mortal, decided to shake up the very peaceful...
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Cuando Érix y su compañero Boentos llegan a Masalia, ambos ladrones deciden desvalijar el santuario de Artemisa. Para su desesperación, el proyecto fracasa: sorprendidos por los guardias de la ciudad focense, deben partir precipitadamente del Lacidón, el puerto de Masalia, a bordo de una frágil embarcación. Pero lo que ninguno de los dos sabe es que su peripecia acabará llevándolos más allá de las columnas de Heracles, hasta la isla de Eriteia....
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Descubre la Tebas de las cien puertas y conviértete en el avatar del jóven Lisicles. Hijo de senador, te llevará consigo a su increíble aventura: ¡el indómito Lysicles se convierte en testigo de una violación recurrente, fomentada por el mayor oligarca de la fortaleza tebana! ¿Cómo detener el ciclo infernal, puesto que la antigua ciudad de Cadmos está gobernada por un déspota, violador y asesino? Adrastea-Némesis, diosa de la aflicción,...
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Discover the Thebes with a hundred doors, and become the avatar of young Lysicles. Son of a senator, he will make you plunge you into his incredible adventure: the unworthy Lysicles becomes the witness of a recurring rape, fomented by the greatest oligarch of the Theban fortress! How to stop the infernal cycle, given that the ancient city of Cadmus is governed by a despot, a rapist and a murderer? Adrestia-Nemesis, goddess of affliction, is a free...
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In artwork "Stories of the Stix", by Patrice Martinez, we find the protagonist Apohibos in the the underworld, after his decapitation. He is condemned to spend eternity with forty nine nymphs and fiftieth Hypermnestra, who is destined to watch other forty nine nymphs to fulfill their duty correctly. Their duty is filling of a tank of water. Since the vases to carry watter has a holes in their bases, nyphs have eternal, never ending hard job - they...
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When Eryx and his companion Boentos arrived at Massalia, the two thieves decided to despoil the Artemis sanctuary. To their dismay, that did not work: surprised by guards of the Phocaean city, they had to hurriedly leave Lacydon, the Massalia port, aboard a frail vessel. But what the two thieves did not know was that their adventures carried them beyond the columns of Herakles to Erytheia Island. The most beautiful of orchards spans this wild area:...
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On the outskirts of the city of Larissa - the stronghold of Thessaly - a magnificent aristocratic dwelling stands, bordered by the river Peneus. Captivated by the estate, Senator Fotios wants to acquire the property, but learns a condition is required: accompanying the land is an ancient tree, which the deceased owner refuses to allow to be cut down. In spite of this unusual stipulation, Fotios buys the property from a young broker, the Thebain Anthemios....
16) Polymorphic Zeus
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The pleasures of youth may hide heavy secrets: On top of Mount Olympus lives great Polymorphic Zeus, the changing Divinity. The lord of heavens, who uses and abuses of tricks of his invention, in order to achieve his goals: to capture beautiful feminine mortals and ephebes of pearly skin, to help him quench his libertine thirst!
17) Hecate's Abyss
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Proud owner of a beef herd. Eurymachus was the unfortunate witness of dreadful genocide. but Themis, the personification of the divine justice, keeps an eye!
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¿Con que todavía no conoce a las Keres?, Abominables criaturas ávidas de sangre y de carne humana…Entonces eche un ojo a esta novela, y si después de esta lectura todavía toma malas decisiones en la vida… ¡No se queje si su alma es enviada a morar las profundidades del Hades!
20) A New Prometheus
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Discover the craft district of Athens Ceramic … You are attracted to visuals arts? You like plunging your hands into the clay? Then, follow the young Ophelos 's apprenticeship, he will show you the craft district of Athens Ceramic …
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