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sealed jar of Greek Fire, which will kill one enemy of any size or sort instantly if thrown, but can only be used once. Now make your way to 61 and select another destination on your map.
    Score 2 and you meet another boar. Like the last one, it has 20 Life Points and tusks that will do you +5 damage. If it kills you, go to 13 . If not, roll two dice to find out how many healing meals you can make from the meat, each one restoring a double dice roll of Life Points, then go to 61 to select another destination.
    Score 3 and you meet a black bear. This great brute has 50 Life Points and does +5 on fang and claw damage. If it kills you, go to 13 . If it doesn’t, limp to 61 and select another destination.
    Score 4 and you drop down dead from exhaustion like poor old Pheidippides. Go to 13 .
    Score 5 or 6 and you have an utterly boring uneventful journey back to Sparta. Go to 61 and select another destination.
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    â€œRight and you have just DOUBLED YOUR MONEY!” shouts the huge man with even more enthusiasm as he hands you another two drachmas. “And earned the right to go inside this mysterious building!”
    With which he steps aside allowing you, at long last, to proceed. Which you do, to find yourself entering what must be Sparta’s public baths to judge from the swimming pool before you and the vast numbers of entirely naked people around you.
    â€œCome join us!” calls someone cheerfully.
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    Nobody seems to worry at all about nudity in Sparta, but are you honestly prepared to get all your kit off in front of a bunch of total strangers? If so, you can take the plunge at 45 . If not, you can try sneaking out at 21 .
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    â€œWell, hello again!” exclaims a familiar voice.
    You open your eyes to find yourself in a golden hall at one end of an emerald colonnade. The colour contrast is a bit tacky, but you ignore it since seated at the far end of the colonnade on a massive throne that seems to have been carved from a single, impossibly enormous diamond, is your old friend Zeus. He’s dressed in robes of spun gold and silver, with a laurel wreath on his head and looks, frankly, a lot more impressive than the last time you met him in the flesh. He beckons you to come forward.
    When you stand at the foot of the pretentious throne, he says in a voice like thunder, “Well done! To be frank, I never thought you’d get through the various tests - everybody else I picked has died in the attempt. Now, are you raring to go on your biggest adventure of all?”
    â€œWell, not exactly raring -”
    â€œGood!” says Zeus. “now, would you prefer to start at the beginning and try to sort the root of the problem, or would you feel happier plunging into the Trojan War itself and sort things out from there?”
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    Your choice. If you want to start at the root of the problem (whatever that might be) turn to 102 . If you prefer to get straight into the action, go to 132 .
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    â€œOh, all right!” you exclaim a little petulently. Cautiously you remove your clothes.
    â€œInto the Castalian spring!” screams the Pythia madly, jumping into the icy waters.
    You take a deep breath, close your eyes and follow her. The shock to your system is so excessive you feel as if you’re back in Sparta. But fortunately since she’s mad rather than stupid, she doesn’t insist in staying long.
    â€œGet your clothes on!” she shouts as you climb out. “I have to drink from the sacred spring Cassotis. I’ll see you back at the temple.” With which she scampers off.
    By the time you eat your pelanos and get back to the temple, she’s waiting for you at the door, looking wilder than ever.
    â€œWalk this way,” says the tall priest, leading you into the temple and through