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2022世界杯预选赛

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[Lore Olympus Episode 183]
Ancient Greek mythology has been a popular subject of reading and study for centuries, largely thanks to the codification ofThe Iliad,The Odyssey,and Hesiod’sWorks and Days在众多其他作品中，有许多有助于将这个复杂的神话保存千年的作品。现在，任何熟悉古希腊神话的人都知道，它远非内部一致。这些故事甚至在被记录下来之前就已经流传了几千年。许多人在历史的叙述中遗失了，还有一些人支离破碎，这还没有涉及到地区差异。这些故事有多个版本，其中许多与现代情感相冲突，还有更多与现代情感不相符。我的意思是，在大约20%的神话和四分之三的英雄的起源故事中，最常见的煽动事件是“不幸的是，宙斯感到饥渴”，这只是使神话不舒服的一个方面，往好了说，最坏的是不适合年轻观众。作为一个读了几乎所有我能找到的关于古希腊神话的书长大的人，直到我再大一点，我才完全意识到这些故事是多么的不卫生，以及——一句话，整个神话是多么的不舒服。

It seems to be a running theme nowadays to rewrite ancient Greek mythos into something a bit more palatable. Right now, the most popular retelling of ancient Greek mythology is Rick Riordan’sPercy Jackson, which was a smash hit in the early 2000s and by all accounts, not a terrible modernization of a convoluted web of ancient stories, made suitable and engaging for a younger audience. I haven’t read them in a while, but I definitely recall that Riordan’s stories drew strongly from Ovid’sMetamorphosis这是可以理解的，因为奥维德的作品是一本单独的书，而不是一堆零散的故事。这并不是对赖尔登故事的批评，更多的是一种观察。毕竟，仅仅考虑到希腊神话的范围和广度，研究这个主题并不是一件简单的事情，但这可能是这本书对讲故事的人如此有吸引力的部分原因，他们不断地回到它。

There are infinite ways that storytellers can rearrange the fragments of Greek mythology we have, and this is exactly what Rachel Smythe did withLore Olympus.2022世界杯预选赛

Lavendar Jack by Dan Schkade – WebToon Review!

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Lavender Jackis a comic on Webtoon by Dan Schkade (that’s pronounced “Shkah-dee”) set in the fictional country of Gallery in the early 20thcentury. The story is moderately ahistorical, most notably with an in-universe war known as the Platinum War, which at this point has only been vaguely referenced, but Schkade does a wonderful job in weaving together a compelling world and narrative.

So, let’s start with a basic summary.Lavender Jackis three “seasons” long, though it is currently on a temporary hiatus to organize the script for the final stretch of the last season, as well as for an authorial health break. It opens in the office of Gallery’s Lord Mayor Quincy Monmouth, reading a detective novel. His peace is abruptly interrupted by Lady Lackshore, an acquaintance and the city’s largest land developer, bursting into the office in a fit. The night before, a masked man broke into her home, beat up her butler—a veteran from the aforementioned Platinum War—and stole damning proof of her corruption before vanishing into the night. And setting her living room on fire with some strange, almost magical power.

However, this masked man is more than some common night robber. To a modern audience, he’s more akin to a vigilante, but more on him in a tick. Apparently, this vigilante, this Lavender Jack as the press has taken to calling him, has struck three times previously, his actions leading to the exposure of the corrupt actions of an upper-class individual and the ruin of their reputation. Lackshore demands that Quincy deal with Lavender Jack immediately before he can do more damage to the ruling class. In response, Quincy calls in his childhood hero and the subject of the book he was reading as Lackshore burst in: Madame Theresa Ferrier, the world’s greatest detective.

这一独特的行动引发了一系列事件，其后果在目前出版的其他系列中都能感受到。

现在，我将保持我的漫画情节的描述稀疏，以避免破坏任何故事的转折和启示，而是把我的注意力集中在这个可爱的小展示中的人物。

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