Ergebnis für "Theseus" in Fantasy

When Ariadne helped Theseus escape the MInotaur's labyrinth with the aid of a ball of thread, she led the way for the bewildered victims of a twenty-first century minotaur. Trapped in an endless maze of Internet chatrooms, a group of mystified strangers find themselves assigned obscure aliases...

Theseus ist einer der berühmtesten Helden der griechischen Mythologie. Seine Nachkommen werden als Thesiden bezeichnet. Theseus Geburt: Als der athenische König Aigeus kinderlos blieb, ging er nach Delphi, um das Orakel zu befragen. Er erhielt als Orakelspruch, dass er „das vorstehende Ende eines Weinschlauchs nicht lösen“, d. h. sich nicht betrinken solle, bevor er nicht nach Athen zurückgekehrt sei. Da er die Weissagung nicht verstand, begab er sich nach Troizen zu dem weisen König Pittheus. Dieser verstand den Orakelspruch und brachte Aigeus dazu, mit einem Mädchen zu schlafen – vermutlich, indem er ihn betrunken machte.

Regina, trained to find the dregs of humanity, trained to kill, is forced into vacation because her peers are getting murdered. At first, the massive cruise vessel she chooses as her resort destination seems...tolerable, and then, in the span of a few hours, everyone disappears, thousands of passengers vanish. As Regina explores the ship, not only does she discover pile after pile of clothing and no bodies, she finds a fear not felt for years.

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award Waterstones best book of the year 2023 'A remarkable feat of storytelling' Rosie Hewlett This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures…everyone’s favourite hero, right? Wrong. This is the story of everyone else...

Greek mythology's famed musician and poet Orpheus journeyed to the underworld in order to find his wife. Greek mythology describes Theseus as a hero who entered the underworld in order to save his comrade Pirithous.