Kindle Countdown Deal: Ancestress: Ancestress seems like a weird title for a novel about Yellowstone, but as one reader says novels by Dora Benley and Linda Cargill often emphasize encounters between the old and new worlds. The teenage heroine of… Continue Reading →
Children of the Hydra’s Teeth are the ultimate special effect of the movie, Jason and the Argonauts, which appear in the climactic scene right before Jason and Medea escape from Colchis carrying the Golden Fleece. They look like something out… Continue Reading →
Ray Harryhausen Special Effects: Jason finally reaches the climactic scene of the movie Jason and the Argonauts in a scene the resonates with the Cheops Books young adult thriller Medea’s Escape. Medea must make her choice to give away the… Continue Reading →
Medea Performs at the Temple of Hecate: The scene where Medea performs in the Temple of Hecate comes closest to the Cheops Books LLC mythological novel, Medea’s Escape. Medea in the movie Jason and the Argonauts announces to Jason that… Continue Reading →
Medea’s Escape Countdown Deal: In the next special effects scene in the 1963 movie Jason and the Argonauts we have another illustration of what the ancient Greeks knew about the geography of their world. The Argonauts navigate the Hellespont on… Continue Reading →
Phineas the Blind Man and the Harpies: I emphasized the mastery with which Jason and the Argonauts, the 1963 family mythological film for all ages, pursues special effects. In fact, the whole movie is little more than a connected series… Continue Reading →
More 1963 Special Effects: Talos is the name written on the statue found on the beach of the island where the Argonauts land. Hercules steals weapon from treasure trove and awakens the monster, Talos, who chases the crew back to… Continue Reading →
The film Jason and the Argonauts premiered in 1963, before the great dividing line of 1965 after which movies started to change for the worse. In 1963 movies were often still made the way they were in the 1950’s with… Continue Reading →
Reminder: Medea’s Escape On Kindle Countdown Deal Over Christmas: The young adult mythological novel, Medea’s Escape, is now available during the Christmas holidays for onl $.99 on Amazon Kindle. It is the Cheops Books LLC Christmas special, which has never… Continue Reading →
Medea’s Escape, the subject of the upcoming Countdown deal on Amazon, is a young adult story in a genre full of adult titles about the classical world. Cheops Books LLC began several years ago by publishing To Follow the Goddess,… Continue Reading →
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