God of War (2005 video game) scene of the final battle before a denouement on Mount Olympus in the God of War's throne room. The protagonist of the game is Kratos (voiced by Terrence C. Carson), a Spartan warrior who serves the Olympian Gods. Other characters include a host of Greek gods, such as Athena (Carole Ruggier), the Goddess of Wisdom and Kratos' ally and mentor; Ares (Steven Blum), the God of War and main antagonist; Poseidon (Fred Tatasciore), the God of the Sea; Aphrodite (Carole Ruggier), the Goddess of Love and Sexuality; Zeus (Paul Eiding), the King of the Gods; Artemis (Claudia Black), the Goddess
The God Beneath the Sea series of stories, "[t]heir zest sweeps you along. It is a real feat, to make everything sound so first hand." "Contemporary Review" observed a "slight decline in narrative cohesiveness" in the second half of the book, after the "fine ... reworking of the earlier myths" but felt it "detracts little from the effectiveness of dramatic and narrative motifs ... which help tie together the disparate myths so well." "The Spectator" claimed "the narrative is handled with dramatic, and comic, awareness of the epic voyage into our creative origins." Philip Pullman cites "The God Beneath the Sea" as an inspiration for