Lessons and Gamebooks
Myths, epics, fables, scriptures, plays, histories, philosophy and science, each with lessons for Philo, Sophia, Marcos and Demetria and a gamebook in which you play the story yourself. The first part of every series, and every beginner part (A1–A2), is free for everyone; the rest are for members. Choose a series to see all its parts, with the grammar point, level and access of each.
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Theseus: The Road to Athens
Follow Theseus from Troezen to Athens and into the Labyrinth, with dice, choices and word challenges, one level harder at each labour, each with its own grammar lesson.
Explore →The Labours of Heracles
Twelve labours for the strongest man in the world. The English grows with every labour in half-steps, and the map grows with it, from the Peloponnese to the edge of the world.
Explore →The Odyssey
Homer’s Odyssey in twenty-four games, one for every book, as the scholars of the Library divided it: Telemachus’s search and Odysseus’s long way home.
Explore →The Iliad
From the wrath of Achilles to the funeral of Hector. In every book you play a different hero, Greek or Trojan, and at the end, an old king.
Explore →Hesiod’s Theogony
How the gods were born, from Chaos to the birth of Athena. In each part you play a different figure, from the shepherd-poet Hesiod to Gaia, Kronos, Prometheus and Zeus.
Explore →Oedipus
The oracle, the crossroads, the riddle of the Sphinx and Sophocles’ great tragedy: the most famous Greek story of all, told by Sophia.
Explore →Fables
Aesop’s Fables, Part 1
Six fables from Demetrius of Phalerum’s collection, each with a lesson on a family of modal verbs and a gamebook in which you play the story yourself.
Explore →Aesop’s Fables, Part 2
Six more fables for beginners, with simple English and dotted words you can tap to see what they mean.
Explore →Aesop’s Fables, Part 3
Six more fables for intermediate students, in which you sometimes find a better ending than Aesop’s.
Explore →Scriptures and myths of the Near East and Egypt
Stories from the Septuagint
Philo’s scrolls: the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, made here in Alexandria, with a grammar lesson and a gamebook for each story.
Explore →Myths of the Near East
The stories of Babylon, Assyria, Akkad and Ugarit, and how they compare with the stories of the Bible, with a “What we know today” note on the archaeology.
Explore →Myths of Egypt
The stories of the country the gang lives in: Isis and Osiris, Horus and Set, the sun’s night journey, a forbidden book, a master thief and a famine at Elephantine.
Explore →Myths and sagas of the North
Myths of Ireland
The Tuatha Dé Danann, the Children of Lir, Cú Chulainn, Fionn mac Cumhaill and the fairy folk under the hills.
Explore →Norse Myths
Odin who gave an eye for wisdom, Thor and his hammer, Loki the trickster, the World Tree and the twilight of the gods.
Explore →Sagas of Iceland
Settlers and lawmakers, Viking poets and proud chieftains, outlaws, ghosts and voyages to America.
Explore →Drama, history, philosophy and science
Greek Drama
The tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, and the theatre of Alexandria itself.
Explore →Ancient Historians
From Hecataeus and Herodotus to Josephus, Plutarch, Tacitus and Procopius: the writers who invented history by asking who saw it, and how do you know.
Explore →History of the Ancient World
From the first cities of Sumer and Egypt to Philo’s Alexandria, with every claim labelled as agreed, debated or unknown.
Explore →Ancient Philosophy
From Thales to the schools of Athens and Alexandria, India and China, showing what survives: complete works, fragments or only reports.
Explore →Ancient Science
Euclid, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Galen and Ptolemy: how the ancients measured the Earth, mapped the stars and studied the body, and how we know, from lost books, Arabic translations and a box of bronze gears.
Explore →Sophia’s Visions
In Alexandria, in 1 CE, Sophia begins to see the future: Philo’s, the city’s, and the world’s. Advanced grammar, from future forms to the future perfect, and the history that followed.
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