Hellenistic Period

Tag Area: Real-World Setting
Early Chapter Book

A Dreidel in Time


Nine-year-old Benjamin and his younger sister Devorah are given a dreidel that takes them back to the Maccabean Revolt and the first Hanukkah. —Michael Main
“What’s happening?” Benjamin cried. The dreidel spun faster and faster until the whole room whirled with it. He grabbed onto Devorah and shut his eyes.
Two children in togas look warily at a large elephant and a baby elephant in
                red regalia.
  • Fantasy
  • Religion
  • Audience: Children
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny


Indiana Jones and his goddaughter set out to find the missing half of Archimedes’s “clock” (or Antikythera Mechanism). With all the usual hair-raising chases, stunts, Nazis (or former Nazis), and the added twist of some actual time travel near the end. —Tandy Ringoringo
Helena: Well, for starters, you’d have changed the course of history.
Indy: That supposed to be a bad thing?
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  • Eloi Honorable Mention
  • Mainstream
  • Debatable Time Travel