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Western storytelling starts here — the siege of Troy, Odysseus's voyage, the 300 Spartans — and continues through island musicals and modern myth retellings. These ten works span three millennia; on StoryTerra you can filter Greek stories from ancient Athens to today's islands by exact era.

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10 famous stories set in Greece

Live snapshot of the top 10 most popular catalogue items (2026-09-04). Click any card to open this entry on the live map.

Browse 322 books, 313 movies, 7 TV shows and 64 games set in Greece.

Hades

Hades

game

A rogue-lite hack and slash dungeon crawler in which Zagreus, son of Hades the Greek god of the dead, attempts to escape his home and his oppressive father by fighting the souls of the dead through the various layers of…

Setting: GreeceTime Period: Ancient Greece
Hercules

Hercules

Walt Disney Pictures-Walt Disney Feature Animation
movie

Bestowed with superhuman strength a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father the great god Zeus. Along with his friends Pegasus a flying horse and Phil a personal trainer…

Setting: Ancient GreeceTime Period: Ancient Greece
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

T-Street Productions
movie

World-famous detective Benoit Blanc heads to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery surrounding a tech billionaire and his eclectic crew of friends.

Setting: GreeceTime Period: 2022
Troy

Troy

Warner Bros. Pictures-Plan B Entertainment-Nimar Studios-Radiant Productions-Helena Productions-Latina Pictures
movie

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris the Trojan prince convinces Helen Queen of Sparta to leave her husband Menelaus and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus…

Setting: Ancient Troy, Turkey; Ancient Sparta, GreeceTime Period: Bronze Age Greece
God of War

God of War

game

Unleash the power of the Gods and embark on a merciless quest as Kratos, an ex-Spartan warrior driven to destroy Ares, the God of War. Armed with lethal double chainblades, Kratos must carve through mythology’s darkest…

Setting: Athens, Greece; Aegean Sea, GreeceTime Period: Ancient Greece
God of War

God of War

game

Similar to franchises like Devil May Cry, Rygar, and Castlevania, the game draws its inspiration from ancient Greek mythology and boasts a heavy emphasis on exploration and battle strategy. Broken into three to four…

Setting: GreeceTime Period: Ancient
Mamma Mia!

Mamma Mia!

Internationale Filmproduktion Richter-Playtone-Littlestar
movie

An independent single mother who owns a small hotel on a Greek island is about to marry off the spirited young daughter she's raised alone. But the daughter has secretly invited three of her mother's ex-lovers in the…

Setting: Greek Islands, GreeceTime Period: Contemporary
Knights of the Zodiac

Knights of the Zodiac

Stage 6 Films-Toei Animation
movie

When a headstrong street orphan Seiya in search of his abducted sister unwittingly taps into hidden powers he discovers he might be the only person alive who can protect a reincarnated goddess sent to watch over…

Setting: GreeceTime Period: Ancient Greece; Fantasy: Unknown
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Lucasfilm Ltd.
movie

Finding himself in a new era and approaching retirement Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival Indy…

Setting: New York, USA; Morocco; GreeceTime Period: 1969
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Playtone-Littlestar
movie

Five years after meeting her three fathers Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In 1979 young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each could be Sophie’s biological father.

Setting: Greek Islands, GreeceTime Period: 2010s; 1970s

The 10 stories above are just a sample of the 706 in the catalogue for this entry. For the full live catalogue with trailers, locations and time filters, open Greece in the StoryTerra app. On the live map you can also filter by the exact time the stories take place — any year, decade or century, from BCE to the future.

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