Tales of everyone's favorite Olympian in charge of warfare, wisdom (& crafts!): Athena. Well, everyone's favorite except for anyone who has been led to a grisly adventurer fate by her. Or been turned into a monster by her. Or has adopted a snake from her. Or... The creature is Hyena Man! He's way [...]
Our long journey comes to its end.
Odysseus finally landed on Ithaca, but, with 120 angry, armed men in his house who want his wife and life, can he survive his homecoming?
We're back in the Odyssey where Menelaus comes home, Telemachus leaves it, and Odysseus? Odysseus has been stuck in the same place for seven long years. The creatures this week are the Agogwe, tiny hairy naked people who are really cool until they aren't. Thanos swimsuit: https://myths.link/thanos Store: https://myths.link/store Membership: https://www.mythpodcast.com/membership https://chrt.fm/track/B7AB5D/pdst.fm/e/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/9b7dacdf-a925-4f95-84dc-ac46003451ff/662ff2d4-9b7f-4388-8a94-acb8002fd595/51d3462c-00d0-4aa9-8ac4-acfc000cb0e4/audio.mp3 [...]
We're back following Odysseus around the Mediterranean, finishing up this leg of our journey in a packed episode with a witch, pigmen, more giants, Scylla, Charybdis, Hades, Tiresias, and, of course Hercules. The creature is an evil, eyeless monster from South Africa and the reason you'll want to carry a 2-ton boulder with [...]
With monsters, witches, sirens, and cyclopes, the Odyssey is one of the landmarks of world literature and a classic for the ages. This is the start.
The Greeks find a way into Troy
The backstories of major characters in the Trojan War
The origin story of Achilles