Alternative title(s) | |
Antiquity game | CAG |
Release | Nov, 1982 |
Publisher | Lothlorien |
Developer | M.C. Lothlorien |
Platform(s) | ZX-81, ZXSpectrum |
Mode | Single-player |
Genre | Text-based; strategy game; empire-building |
Setting | Greece during the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE), playing as Athens versus Sparta in various city-states (Argos, Corcyra, Corinth, Elis, Mantinea, Megara, Plataea, Potidaea, Syracuse, Thebes) |
Notable charactersB | Archidamus, Callicratidas, Agesilaus, Lysander, Brasidas, Gylippus, Nicias, Pericles, Cleon, Cimon, Alcibiades, Demosthenes, Conon |
DLC |
Bibliography
Lowe, D. (2009). ‘Playing with Antiquity: Videogame Receptions of the Classical World’ in D. Lowe & K. Shahabudin (eds.), Classics for All: Reworking Antiquity in Mass Culture. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 64-90.
Additional keywords
history, resource management
Click here to play the game. The ‘written notes’ can be found here.