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Romuald Kłys

Bolek and Lolek in Europe [Bolek i Lolek w Europie] (Series, S01E05): Under the Crater [Pod kraterem]

At the beginning of each episode of the series, Bolek and Lolek study a wall map. This time they decide to travel to Campania, Italy. Bolek wants to see Vesuvius before it becomes inactive as he reads it is the last active volcano on the European continent; Lolek, however, is focused on Italy as the homeland of ice-cream. They travel by car (registered “B & L”), unaccompanied by any adult. On the border, they have to give their autographs to passport control officer instead of th(...)

audiovisual

YEAR: 1986

COUNTRY: Poland

TAGS: Vesuvius Vulcan

Cynthia Voigt

Come A Stranger (Tillerman Cycle, 5)

Come A Stranger (1986) tells the story of Mina Smiths, who appears elsewhere in the Tillerman series as one of Dicey Tillerman’s few friends. The novel starts a couple of years before Mina and Dicey meet, with Mina finding out she has been awarded a scholarship to a prestigious ballet summer camp. She loves her time at the camp, despite being the only black student, and returns to her home in Crisfield, Maryland, interested only in traditionally white cultural fields (classical music,(...)

literary

YEAR: 1986

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Ancient Greek Dance Dryades

Margaret Mahy

Dangerous Spaces

In Dangerous Spaces, set on the Banks Peninsula near Christchurch, New Zealand, Margaret Mahy explores the myth of Demeter and Persephone through a story about two cousins, Flora and Anthea, who travel by means of a magical stereoscope machine to a mythical realm, called Viridian. Anthea’s parents have died in a sailing accident, and she has come to live with Flora’s family, in the old house her parents are slowly renovating. This house was built by the cousins’ grandfathe(...)

literary

YEAR: 1986

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Amazons Antheia / Anthea Demeter Eurydice Flora Hades Orpheus Persephone Philoctetes

Nintendo Research and Development Team 1 , Project Sora , TOSE Software , Toru Osawa, Masafumi Sakashita, Masahiro Sakurai, Gunpei Yokoi

Kid Icarus (Series): Kid Icarus (Light Myth: Palutena’s Mirror) [Kid Icarus (Hikari Shinwa: Parutena no Kagami)] | Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters | Kid Icarus: Uprising ( New Light Mythology: Palutena's Mirror) [Kid Icarus: Uprising (Shin Hikari Shinwa: Parutena no Kagami)]

Kid Icarus The story begins in a land called “Angel Land” where humans and deities live in harmony. Two goddesses rule the land: Palutena, goddess of light and Medusa, goddess of darkness. The goddess of light liked the humans and helped them flourish, but the goddess of darkness hated them, so dried up their crops and turned them into stone. Palutena transformed Medusa into a monster and banished her to the underworld. Once there, Medusa gathered monsters and demons and assembl(...)

electronic

YEAR: 1986

COUNTRY: Japan

TAGS: Athena Cerberus Gaia / Gaea Hades Helios Hephaestus Hydra Icarus Medusa Olympus Pandora Poseidon Thanatos Underworld

Lisl Weil

Pandora’s Box

This illustrated retelling of the myth of Pandora begins by explaining that the Greeks believed in many gods, with magical powers, that the ‘myths that told about the gods and what they could do gave people reasons why the world is as it is,’ and that the story of Pandora was a myth that answered the question ‘why couldn’t everything always be wonderful for everyone?’ (4–5) It then depicts the times of the ancient gods, where ‘flowers could talk and magi(...)

literary

YEAR: 1986

COUNTRY: United States of America

TAGS: Epimetheus Hope Pandora Zeus

Jemal Bagashvili, Aleksander Basilaia, Evgeny Ginzburg

The Argonauts [არგონავტები (Argonavtebi)] / Merry Chronicle of a Dangerous Voyage [Веселая хроника опасного путешествия (Vesёlaia khronika opasnogo puteshestviia)]

The movie presents the myth of the Argonauts in contemporary setting. It starts with an introduction about Tim Severin’s expedition to Georgia in 1984 and then presents the director’s version of the myth. The movie contains most of the main elements of the classical myth. It tells briefly the story of Jason and Pelias, describes the building of “Argo” (which looks exactly like Tim Severin’s “Argo”) and the assembling of the team. Then it presents adventu(...)

audiovisual

YEAR: 1986

COUNTRY: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

TAGS: Aeëtes Amazons Amycus / Amykos Argonauts Argos / Argus (Constructor of "Argo") Colchis Diogenes Dioscuri Golden Fleece Greece Heracles Hylas Jason Laertes Medea Orpheus Pelias Poseidon Sirens Tiphys

Margaret Mahy

The Tricksters

In The Tricksters, 17 year old Ariadne ("Harry") Hamilton’s family makes their Christmas annual visit to "Carnival’s Hide," their family holiday house, on the Banks Peninsula, formed by the eruption of an ancient volcano, near Christchurch. The house is comparatively old for New Zealand, being built in the nineteenth century, and it is haunted by Teddy Carnival, who was accidentally killed by his father, the builder of the house. While she is swimming in the bay, (...)

literary

YEAR: 1986

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Ariadne Athena Labyrinth Metamorphoses (Ovid's) Minerva Minotaur Oceanus / Okeanos Ovid Theseus