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Halina Rudnicka

King Agis [Król Agis] (Spartan Trilogy [Trylogia spartańska/Trylogia antyczna], 1)

Based on: Katarzyna Marciniak, Elżbieta Olechowska, Joanna Kłos, Michał Kucharski (eds.), Polish Literature for Children & Young Adults Inspired by Classical Antiquity: A Catalogue (accessed: June 11, 2021), Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, Warsaw: University of Warsaw, 2013, 444 pp., section by Helena Płotek, Joanna Grzeszczuk and Michał Kucharski, pp. 311–323.King Agis is the first book of Halina Rudnicka’a Spartan Trilogy. 3rd century B.C., Sparta. Young Agis succeeds(...)

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YEAR: 1963

COUNTRY: Poland

TAGS: Agiatis Agis IV Apollo Asclepius Athens Delphi Dioscuri Greek History Greek Philosophy Helen Heracles Hercules Leonidas Leonidas II Lycurgus Olympia Oracles Poseidon Pythian Games Sparta Tyche Zeus

Halina Rudnicka

The Son of Heracles [Syn Heraklesa] (Spartan Trilogy [Trylogia spartańska/Trylogia antyczna], 2)

Based on: Katarzyna Marciniak, Elżbieta Olechowska, Joanna Kłos, Michał Kucharski (eds.), Polish Literature for Children & Young Adults Inspired by Classical Antiquity: A Catalogue, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, Warsaw: University of Warsaw, 2013, 444 pp. This is the second part of the Spartan Trilogy (see part 1, part 3). After the death of King Leonidas, Sparta is ruled by his son Cleomenes. Unlike Leonidas, the new king approved the socio-political reform of the Spartan s(...)

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YEAR: 1966

COUNTRY: Poland

TAGS: Achaean League Agiatis Agis IV Aratus of Sicyon Cleomenes III Heracles Leonidas II Lycurgus Sparta