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* ''Owls to Athens''
 
The series' title is a [[Mythology Gag]] reference to ''[[The Iliad (Literature)|The Iliad]]'', where [[Homer (Creator)|Homer]] uses the famous piece of description "wine-dark sea" several times.
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=== ''Over the Wine Dark Sea'' contains such tropes as: ===
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* [[Do You Want to Haggle?]]
* [[Family Business]]: The merchant galley Aphrodite is owned by the fathers of Sostratos and Menedemos.
* [[Friend Onon the Force]]: The Rhodian Navy collectively. And the Rhodian navy [[Always Gets His Man|always gets]] it's [[Pirate]].
* [[Gentleman and Aa Scholar]]: Sostratos, sort of. He is a quite nice person but he doesn't relate well to sailors.
* [[Global Currency]]: Averted. Everybody uses silver drachmas but each mint has a different value so a bargainer like Sostratos who has a great knowledge about such matters has quite an advantage over those who think that a drachma is a drachma.
* [[Good Withwith Numbers]]: Sostratos is this. This is what makes him able to compete with all the bargainers in the Mediterranean.
* [[Home Base]]: Rhodes.
* [[Honest John's Dealership]]: They have many bargaining matches with local buyers and sellers all along the voyage.
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* [[Intrepid Merchant]]: The basic theme of the book.
* [[Jerk Jock]]: Menedemos.
* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: Menedemos.
* [[Jumped At the Call]]: Deconstructed. The intrepid heros hear that Syracuse is starving under a Cartheginian siege and needs grain. Menedemos decides to go because it sounds exciting and will pay a lot of money. Sostratos hates the idea but Menedemos overrules them. Neither apparently give a hoot about the beleaguered citizens of Syracuse. After all, an [[Intrepid Merchant]] has an honest drachma to make, doesn't he?
* [[Literary Allusion Title]]: To the [[Homer (Creator)|Homeric]] epics.
* [[Little Hero Big War]]: Lots of wars are taking place or imminent; the heroes mainly want to stay out of the way unless the [[Hired Guns|money]] is good enough.
* [[Macedonian Succession Wars]]
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* [[Not-So-Safe Harbor]]: Any harbor they put in at.
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|Obstructive Bureaucrats]]: The [[Mooks]] of the various warlords who bicker around them.
* [[Overshadowed Byby Awesome]]: Sostratos feels that way toward Menedemos who can command a ship, inspire men and almost runs well enough to go to the Olympics. While Sostratos is mainly [[Good Withwith Numbers]] and with [[But I Read a Book About It|reading]]. The first(and occasionally the second) of which help the sailors get paid but never get noticed.
* [[Overused Running Gag]]: The peacocks which they carry and which are such a bother.
* [[Patriotic Fervor]]: Towards Rhodes in particular and Hellenic culture in general. ''Not'' towards Macedonians.
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