Showing results for "Oracle" in Ancient

Only the determination of one man can bring victory. The Trojan War has been raging for ten years. Greece's greatest warriors have fallen. But then a series of oracles appear with utterances from the gods, commands that must be fulfilled if Troy is to be defeated. Agamemnon, leader of the Greeks, knows that only one man has the courage and intelligence to complete the Olympians' tasks: Odysseus, King of Ithaca.

Royaume des Francs, 1096. L’opération armée la plus importante de son temps est en marche. Trente-cinq mille pauvres gens ont tout abandonné pour suivre le prédicateur Pierre l’Ermite sur les routes de Constantinople. Ils seront bientôt rejoints par l’armée des barons qui répondent massivement à l’appel du pape Urbain II : libérer Jérusalem du joug païen. C’est dans ce contexte que l’on retrouve Joachim de Saint-Ange et Alix de Saint-Germain.

What is the point of knowing if nobody will listen? Ancient Sumer, 3800 BC. Indentured and forced into prostitution to survive, a reluctant seer known only as Girl finds herself experiencing cataclysmic visions. Kaylem--the most junior scribe of the temple and Girl's one, true friend--realizes Girl is the mouthpiece of the gods and is the only one to believe her.