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Hesiod’s Theogony

The oldest story in the Library: how the gods were born, from Chaos to the birth of Athena, in twelve games. In each part you play a different figure, from the shepherd-poet Hesiod to Gaia, Kronos, Prometheus and Zeus. For advanced students, from C1 to C2+, with the language of advanced reading and writing in every lesson.

C1–C2 · 12 lessons and gamebooks · 📱 Phones · All language games

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Part One C1 · PREMIUM

The Muses on Helicon

Grammar: claim to + verb; assert that; it is alleged that; concede that; deny + -ing; urge sb to; insist that sb + base verb

A shepherd, nine goddesses, a laurel staff, and a voice that is not his own.

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Part Two C1 · PREMIUM

Chaos, Earth and Love

Grammar: geo- (earth), -logy (study); hyper- (over) / hypo- (under); chrono- (time), cyclo- (circle); ephemeral, ethereal, mnemonic

In the beginning, Chaos. Then Earth, the starry Sky, and the first gods.

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Part Three C1 · PREMIUM

The Sickle

Grammar: lead to; result in; bring about; stem from; result from; give rise to; trigger; consequently; as a result (of)

A mother in pain, a jagged sickle, and the night when Earth and Sky were parted.

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Part Four C1+ · PREMIUM

Born from the Foam

Grammar: noun + past participle; noun + present participle; adjective + noun + -ed; number + singular noun

Foam on the sea, a shore in Cyprus, and grass growing under a goddess’s feet.

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Part Five C1+ · PREMIUM

The Children of Night

Grammar: evidently, undeniably, invariably; arguably; reputedly, supposedly, purportedly, apparently; seemingly, ostensibly

The House of Night at the edge of the world, and the goddess with two torches.

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Part Six C1+ · PREMIUM

The Stone in Swaddling Clothes

Grammar: pass off as; trick into; hoodwink; dupe; be taken in; fall for; swallow; see through; play along

A king who swallows his children, a cave in Crete, and the greatest trick in Greek myth.

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Part Seven C2 · PREMIUM

The Trick at Mekone

Grammar: whereby; whereas; thereby + -ing; thus + clause; hence + noun phrase; given that; in that

An ox divided, a god deceived, and fire stolen in a fennel stalk.

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Part Eight C2 · PREMIUM

Pandora

Grammar: -tion, -ment, -ance / -ence; -th, -ness, -ity; -dom; -hood

The first woman, a jar, and the one thing that stayed inside.

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Part Nine C2 · PREMIUM

The Hundred-Handers

Grammar: Having + past participle; past participle clause; Not + -ing; noun + participle; with + noun + participle

Ten years of war, and three prisoners in chains who could end it.

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Part Ten C2 · PREMIUM

The War of the Titans

Grammar: deafening, ear-splitting; a din; reverberate, resound; blinding, dazzling; searing, scorching

The loudest battle in Greek poetry, and the bronze gates of Tartarus.

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Part Eleven C2+ · PREMIUM

Typhon

Grammar: hither / thither / whither; hence / thence / whence; ere; nigh; yonder; betwixt; wherein; henceforth

A hundred snake heads, a hundred voices, and the last challenge to Zeus.

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Part Twelve C2+ · PREMIUM

Metis and the Birth of Athena

Grammar: none other than; the very; insist that + base verb; trick into + -ing; lead to; thereby + -ing; grey-eyed; famously; wisdom

The wisest of the gods, a king’s fear, and a daughter born fully armed.

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