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Mythology Phone Cases

Phone cases featuring original designs inspired by real archaeological sites, ancient artwork, and historical scenes from Greece, Rome, Egypt, and beyond. Dual-layer construction, impact-resistant, and printed directly onto the case so it won't peel, bubble, or fade. For the chronologically curious, or the person shopping for one.

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  • Athenian trireme cutting through dark Aegean water at battle speed with bronze ram catching sunlight

    Triremes: Inside the Warships of Ancient Greece

    The trireme was the warship that defined naval power in the ancient Mediterranean for nearly three centuries. Driven by 170 oarsmen arranged in three stacked tiers, this vessel combined raw...

    Triremes: Inside the Warships of Ancient Greece

    The trireme was the warship that defined naval power in the ancient Mediterranean for nearly three centuries. Driven by 170 oarsmen arranged in three stacked tiers, this vessel combined raw...

  • The Phalanx: How Greek Soldiers Dominated Ancient Warfare

    The Phalanx: How Greek Soldiers Dominated Ancie...

    The phalanx was a tight formation of heavily armoured infantry soldiers who moved as a single disciplined unit, bristling with spears. This deceptively simple arrangement - men in rows, shields...

    The Phalanx: How Greek Soldiers Dominated Ancie...

    The phalanx was a tight formation of heavily armoured infantry soldiers who moved as a single disciplined unit, bristling with spears. This deceptively simple arrangement - men in rows, shields...

  • Menelaus, Mycenaean king in bronze armour and boar's tusk helmet, standing in his megaron hall with spear and oxhide shield.

    Menelaus: King of Sparta, Husband of Helen

    Menelaus' marriage to Helen caused the Trojan War, but the man himself is far more interesting than that one-line summary suggests. Homer's Iliad presents him as a capable warrior who...

    Menelaus: King of Sparta, Husband of Helen

    Menelaus' marriage to Helen caused the Trojan War, but the man himself is far more interesting than that one-line summary suggests. Homer's Iliad presents him as a capable warrior who...

  • A Spartan warrior in bronze armour stands defiant at the mountain pass of Thermopylae, facing the Persian army.

    Molon Labe: The Spartan Defiance That Echoes Th...

    Three words in ancient Greek - molon labe - capture the essence of Spartan defiance at a moment when surrender seemed inevitable. Meaning "come and take them," the phrase emerged...

    Molon Labe: The Spartan Defiance That Echoes Th...

    Three words in ancient Greek - molon labe - capture the essence of Spartan defiance at a moment when surrender seemed inevitable. Meaning "come and take them," the phrase emerged...

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