God of War: Ghost of Sparta alternate version of ancient Greece populated by the Olympian Gods, Titans, and other beings from Greek mythology. With the exception of flashbacks, the events are set between the games "God of War" (2005) and "" (2007). Several locations are explored, including the fictional city of Atlantis (and later a sunken version). Atlantis is a mythical city erected by the Sea God Poseidon, and houses the Temple of Poseidon. Near the city is a real-world location, the Methana Volcano, which is contained by the archimedean screws and is also the prison of the Titan Thera, who is guarded by automatons. On
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