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Mike Maihack

Series of the comics "Cleopatra in Space" is being published since 2014. The series consists of 6 parts: Target Practice, The Thief and The Sword, Secret of the Time Tablets, The Golden Lion, Fallen Empires, and Queen of the Nile. This story is about a young princess Cleopatra who travels in time using magic tablets (Target Practice). She gets to the cosmic school where she meets new friends and realizes that her destiny is to become a saviour, who needs to defeat Xaius Octavian. (...)

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YEAR: 2014

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Cleopatra VII Egypt Egyptian Mythology Egyptians Octavian

Witold Makowiecki, Robert Pawlicki

The Adventures of Melikles the Greek [Przygody Meliklesa Greka]

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.The Mediterranean basin during the last years of the reign of the pharaoh Apries (ca 570 BC). Melikles, a 16-year old Greek from Miletus, is kidnapped by Phoenician corsairs and sold as a slave in Carthage. Kallias, a sailor from(...)

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YEAR: 1947

COUNTRY: Poland

TAGS: Ancient Slavery Ancient Warfare Cyrene Egypt Egyptians Eleusinian Mysteries Greece Greek Colonies Greek History Medes Miletus Phoenicia Sparta Spartans Syracuse