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2) El yelmo
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En una mina de carbón, Proitos se arrastra, ahueca y arranca antracita (un mineral rico en carbono) un trabajo agotador con algunas ventajas menores. Un día, el minero encontró un disco de metal extraño que se asomaba por una saliente. Después de haber descubierto el tremendo poder oculto del objeto; para nuestro rudo trabajador fue muy difícil aguantar la tentación de sacar provecho de su cualidad principal: ¡el poder de la invisibilidad!...
3) The Xoanon
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A destiny for the Meteors!
For a few drops of clepsydra, discover the intriguing Athanasius. Pursued by the gendarmerie service of Krypteia, he will reach the village of Kalambaka, nestled at the feet of the blue peaks of Meteora. From then on, the pearls of Time will flow quickly, diffused by the terrible lord Chronos ...
4) El Xoanon
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¡Un viaje a Meteora! Durante unas cuantas gotas de clepsidra, descubra al intrigante Atanase. Perseguido por el servicio de gendarmería de la Krypteia, llegará al poblado de Kalambaka, enroscado al pie de los pitones azulados de Meteora . A partir de ese momento, las perlas del Templo caerán rápidamente, desplazadas por el terrible señor Cronos...
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Hay en este mundo una terrible enfermedad, los celos. Y aunquie habiten acurrucados en cada uno de los mortales, escondidos en la guarida de la razón y del intelecto, no pueden sustentarse solos; en cuanto el hambre los devora, despiertan a la inconsciencia de sus actos para alimentarse... Pero su voracidad no conoce límites y puede sobrepasar el entendimiento de la razón, pudiendo así perjudicar dramáticamente al destino de cualquier ser humano.
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10) Ekaterini
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Far are the lands of Messinia! Migrating to the mighty Corinth, Cerberus works as a stone paver on the Diolkos route - a commercial and strategic route linking the Gulf of Corinth to Salamina. Cerberus and Ekaterini lived in a modest house, at the gates of Corinth, owned by a powerful landowner with overwhelming greed. Alas, the couple's poverty and the loss of a child altered their love, and thirst for growth. Disputes between the young couple lead...
11) Ekaterini
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"Ekaterini" es una libre adaptación de un texto de Partenio de Nicea "Amorosas Pasiones", No. 10: "leucone". Esta pequeña historia relata parte de la vida de Ekaterini, de como la vida fue dura con ella, y nos cuenta una parte de su vida amorosa en un mundo lleno de dioses, con un final sumamente trágico que hace sentir su fuerte dolor en carne propia.
13) An Intense Love
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There is terrible disease in this world: jealousy. And although in each mortal it remains coiled, hidden in the lair of reason and intellect, it cannot satisfy itself; as soon as hunger touches it, it awakens to the unconsciousness of its action in order to sustain itself... But its voracity has no limits and can go beyond the understanding of reason, and in this it can dramatically affect the destiny of every human being. This is what happened to...
14) Ifigenia
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Ifigenia, mujer de un hombre guerrero de Mesenia, sufría de una vida marital sometida a la subyugación del exercitus, ese ejercicio marcial en el que el dios Ares es honrado por el pueblo militar. Su marido, el estratega Filippos, se entregaba con avidez a este juego de guerra en el que el dios Ares autorizaba el furor de los combates… Pero el invasor espartano se acercó al bastión del Monte Itome, y el estratega partió a reforzar al ejército...
15) Asterion
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Patrice Martinez brings us the new adventures from ancient Greece. This time he leads us to the island of Crete, in the labyrinth of Minotaur. But in this new myth from antiquity it is not Theseus who kills Minotaur. What really happened with Minotaur and its labyrinth on the island of Crete in the dawn of our civilisation, you will discover in this book. If you like ancient Greek mythology, you must read this story.
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Fleeing the bloodhounds of the city of Keryneia, Attica, the thief Timotheus was landlocked in an endless gully ...Timotheus and the sphinge. Fleeing the bloodhounds of the city of Keryneia, Attica, the thief Timotheus was landlocked in an endless gully. After walking on a few stadiums, the trickster made a strange encounter, chaining him to a terrible sentence. The fate of Timotheus was going to be upset ...
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Huyendo de los sabuesos de la ciudad de Kirena en Ática, el ladrón Timoteo sin más escapatorias que desfiladeros interminables que le dirigían a algunos estadios por los que debía pasar, el bribón tuvo un extraño encuentro, quedando encadenado a una terrible sentencia. El destino de Timoteo iba a ser alterado...
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During the 1513th olympiad, the monarch Acrisios, king of New Argos, reigned over the Hellenic coalition with an iron fist ... But the python of Delphi prophesied his death by the hands of his grandson. Then Acrisios took the lead and locked Danae, his daughter, into a penitentiary fortress, placed in a geostationary orbit, above the powerful Argos ... Danae and her son Perseus seemed lost forever, but Zeus Olumpios - the master of the Olympus - decided...
19) Stellar Moods
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Stellar Moods by Patrice Martinez
A Short Story
It is only a small planet lost in the vast mantle of the Milky Way, still harboring a primary life: immense steppes providing shelter and cover for wild animals and a few human tribes taking advantage of the little nutritional largesse Nature gives them. But that was more than enough for the albino people… Osh'Kalishan was the greatest beater, an illustrious hunter with fine hearing and sharp eyes....
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