Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

Alternative title(s)
Antiquity game	CAG
Release	Oct 5, 2018
Publisher	Ubisoft
Developer	Ubisoft Quebec
Platform(s)	PS4, Windows, Xbox One; Nintendo Switch (Japan); Google Stadia (2019)
Mode	Single-player
Genre	Action-adventure; role-playing game; empire-building; hero-based
Setting	Greece, 431-422 BCE
Notable characters^B	Leonidas, Perikles, Herodotos, Sokrates, Aspasia, Hippokrates, Pausanias, Archidamos, Alkibiades, Kleon, Aristophanes, Brasidas, Euripides, Sophokles, Hermippos, Minotaur, Medusa, Sphinx (Greek), Steropes, Brontes, Arges, Anaxagoras, Phidias, Empedokles, Lysander, Demosthenes, Pythagoras, Thrasymachos, Protagoras, Dorieus, Hephaistos^?, Pegasus, Kallipateira, Peisirrhodos, Aristokles/Plato, Demokritos, Polykleitos, Kalydonian Boar, Hind of Kerynia, Nemean Lion, Kretan Bull, Lykaon Wolf, Kallisto the Bear, Erymanthian Boar, Krokottas Hyena, Xanthippe
DLC	Legacy of the First Blade (2018-2019), The Fate of Atlantis (2019), Story creator mode (2019), Discovery Tour (2019)

Bibliography

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Vandewalle, A. (2021). ‘Playing with Plato: The Presentation of Socrates in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’. Paper presented at Imagines VII: Playful Classics (5-6 Mar, 2021).

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The Twitter hashtags #ArtofACOdyssey by dr. Kira Jones, as well as #ACademicOdyssey, are also very much worth the visit.

Additional keywords

Peloponnesian War, Athens, Sparta, Aegean, history, mythology