Alex Andreou's Podyssey
Alex Andreou revisits the classic Greek myths, and uncovers universal themes they share with us across the millennia.
Episodes
2.5 SISYPHUS - Papa Was a Rollin' Stone
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Sisyphus - condemned to an eternity of torment. Forever rolling that giant boulder up the steepest mountain side, only to watch it roll back down as soon as it is almost at the top - his "sisyph
Storytime: ARACHNE - Web of Truth
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Welcome to a new outpost of the Podyssey Empire - PODYSSEY STORYTIME. Basically, while researching the main episodes, I stumble on many other myths - MANY other myths - that are really to
BONUS: Europa Live Q&A - Of Ancient Tax Havens and Flying Penises
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From a Phoenician Princess kidnapped from the beach, to Nazi experiments trying to revive the Zeus-Bull; from victim to mother of the Minoan civilisation; from the Catholic Church, to the eu
2.4 EUROPA II: How to invent a continent
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From a Phoenician Princess kidnapped from the beach, to Nazi experiments trying to revive the Zeus-Bull; from victim to mother of the Minoan civilisation; from the Catholic Church, to the euro
2.3 EUROPA I: Quite a lot of bull
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From a Phoenician Princess kidnapped from the beach, to Nazi experiments trying to revive the Zeus-Bull; from victim to mother of the Minoan civilisation; from the Catholic Church, to the euro cur
BONUS: Pandora Live Q&A
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The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, a
2.2 PANDORA: Worst. Unboxing. Video. Ever.
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Pandora’s tale demands deconstruction, because it makes no sense, even on its own terms. When a story lacks internal logic, one must look for the external factors pressing on it, twisting it out of s
Bonus PROMETHEUS: Live Q & A
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What is there to be said about Prometheus that has not been said already, by voices much more illustrious than mine - from Plato to Goethe and Aeschylus to Mary Shelley?
Quite a lot it turns out. This is the beauty of myths - they wrap around each present differently, always revealing different things.
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2.1 PROMETHEUS: I Don't Want to Set The World On Fire
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What is there to be said about Prometheus that has not been said already, by voices much more illustrious than mine - from Plato to Goethe and Aeschylus to Mary Shelley?
Quite a lot it turns out. This is the beauty of myths - they wrap around each present differently, always revealing different things.
Make sure you are on ko-fi as a mo
The Beast In Me - Ancient Greece And Its Pets
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Did the Ancient Greeks keep pets? What did they think of them and how did they treat them?
This was the question asked by a subscriber, during a live zoom session. And although the topic did not fit well within the format of the show, it was nonetheless so tantalising a question, that I thought it merited a little bonus episode of its own.
BONUS - How Do You Like Them Golden Apples?
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Apples - especially Golden Apples - keep popping up throughout mythology, dripping with rich - and often conflicting - symbolism. The influence of these stories pervades religion, music, modern art, cinema, and technology. Funny story: they probably weren't apples.
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The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach
Director's Cut: ECHO & NARCISSUS - The Influencer & The Follower
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Most of what you think you know about the story of Narcissus, is wrong. This isn’t a story of conceit or vanity. It isn’t even the story of one person. It is a story of unrequited love and pain, of the corruption of innocence, of losing oneself.
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The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every as
Podyssey Season 2 - All The Details
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The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other.
Welcome to Podysse
10. MEDUSA - Here's Looking at You, Kid
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The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other.
Welcome to Podyssey wi
The Miller, His Son, and Their Donkey: A Fable by Aesop for Modern Politicians
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What is the moral of "The Tortoise and The Hare"? What is the warning in "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing"? What is "The Fox and The Grapes" about? You're probably wrong about all t
9. AESOP III - How to Lose a Donkey in 10 Ways
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What is the moral of "The Tortoise and The Hare"? What is the warning in "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing"? What is "The Fox and The Grapes" about? You're probably wrong about all three.
In the last instalment of the Aesop Trilogy, Alex delves into the fables themselves and finds the many ways in which they have been twisted and why.
8. AESOP II - A dolphin and a seagull were hurling insults at each other
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Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new!
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Last week we explored the complicated, and
7. AESOP I - Virtue Signaller or Fake News Merchant?
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Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new!
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Stories have had a moral, for as long as we
BONUS - No thing is just one thing
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This week Alex gets to quiz the show's cultural historian, Dr Debbie Challis, starting with the obvious question: What the hell is a cultural historian?
Listen to Debbie explain her complicated on-again-off-again love affair with the classical and the classic - but also Greece itself. And her battle to be heard without being labelled
6. Cassandra - Everything Must Be Said Again
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The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other.
Welcome to Podyssey with
BONUS - Archaeology: The Art of Interpreting Science
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This week we meet the show's archaeologist, Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, and talk about her profession: What it used to be, what it is now, and what it isn't. The romantic ideas of it and how far they are from the practical reality... And why nothing can substitute being in a place, touching, smelling, hearing, and feeling the context of what
5. Persephone Part II - You Do Something To Me
The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other.
Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concep
3b. BONUS - The Making of Podyssey
Naomi Smith gets the behind the scenes skinny on Podyssey from Alex Andreou. Where did the idea come from? What's coming up in Season 2? What is the most surprising fact so far?
Lots of exclusive access, previews, and exclusive announcements.
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The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and so
4. Persephone Part I - If You Can't Be Free, Be A Mystery
The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other.
Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept,
3. King Midas - All That Glitters
The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other.
Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept,
2b. BONUS - The Music of Podyssey
The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other.
Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept,
2. Orpheus - Epic Hero or Drama Queen?
The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other.
Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept,
1. Narcissus & Echo - The Influencer & The Follower
The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other.
Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept,
Coming soon: Podyssey, Greek myths through a modern lens
Introducing Podyssey with Alex Andreou
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