Alex Andreou's Podyssey https://quietriotpod.com/#fe214801-0dbb-4a0b-a350-1179b7b0c829 en All content © Cooler Heads Alex Andreou revisits the classic Greek myths, and uncovers universal themes they share with us across the millennia https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/561f8326-d2cc-11ef-bd88-df5367d964e2/image/3bc5b03180276d849b4aa168825ef091.jpeg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress Alex Andreou's Podyssey https://quietriotpod.com/#fe214801-0dbb-4a0b-a350-1179b7b0c829 episodic Alex Andreou is your guide for this journey through the world of Greek mythology with a modern twist Alex Andreou Alex Andreou revisits the classic Greek myths, and uncovers universal themes they share with us across the millennia Alex Andreou revisits the classic Greek myths, and uncovers universal themes they share with us across the millennia

]]> Cooler Heads kenny@pepshop.co.uk BONUS: Europa Live Q&A - Of Ancient Tax Havens and Flying Penises https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey To receive the illustrated guide to each episode and an invitation to the live Q&A on Thursday 16th April at 8pm, become a monthly supporter! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** 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 currency... The myth of the abduction of Europa is, in many ways, the most consequential one for modernity. It is the source of our sense of Westerness. The link to a past that acts as a decryption key, that turns a series of points into an arc. It is the origin story of our view of the world in which we live. ... 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, 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! ADDITIONAL MUSIC Meyerbeer: L'Africaine - "Selika's Death", Denise Monteil, 1965 "Cows Don't Fly", Pearl Trio, 1947 "Don't Fence Me In", Lee Monti's Tutones, 1951 *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:51:00 -0000 Europa Live Q&A - Of Ancient Tax Havens and Flying Penises bonus Alex Andreou Plus - reproduction pottery, confusing graves, dreamy property, and operatic deaths To receive the illustrated guide to each episode and an invitation to the live Q&A on Thursday 16th April at 8pm, become a monthly supporter! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** 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 currency... The myth of the abduction of Europa is, in many ways, the most consequential one for modernity. It is the source of our sense of Westerness. The link to a past that acts as a decryption key, that turns a series of points into an arc. It is the origin story of our view of the world in which we live. ... 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, 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! ADDITIONAL MUSIC Meyerbeer: L'Africaine - "Selika's Death", Denise Monteil, 1965 "Cows Don't Fly", Pearl Trio, 1947 "Don't Fence Me In", Lee Monti's Tutones, 1951 *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To receive the illustrated guide to each episode and an invitation to the live Q&A on Thursday 16th April at 8pm, become a monthly supporter!

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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 currency...

The myth of the abduction of Europa is, in many ways, the most consequential one for modernity. It is the source of our sense of Westerness. The link to a past that acts as a decryption key, that turns a series of points into an arc. It is the origin story of our view of the world in which we live.

...

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, 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!


ADDITIONAL MUSIC

Meyerbeer: L'Africaine - "Selika's Death", Denise Monteil, 1965

"Cows Don't Fly", Pearl Trio, 1947

"Don't Fence Me In", Lee Monti's Tutones, 1951


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Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

Additional research by Kos Mantzakos

A Cooler Heads podcast


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]]> 3419 no 2.4 EUROPA II: How to invent a continent https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey To receive the illustrated guide to each episode and an invitation to the live Q&A on Thursday 16th April at 8pm, become a monthly supporter! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** 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 currency... The myth of the abduction of Europa is, in many ways, the most consequential one for modernity. It is the source of our sense of Westerness. The link to a past that acts as a decryption key, that turns a series of points into an arc. It is the origin story of our view of the world in which we live. ... 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, 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! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:54:00 -0000 EUROPA II: How to invent a continent full 2 4 Alex Andreou A story about fluidity has become rigid - and it's ruining Europe To receive the illustrated guide to each episode and an invitation to the live Q&A on Thursday 16th April at 8pm, become a monthly supporter! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** 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 currency... The myth of the abduction of Europa is, in many ways, the most consequential one for modernity. It is the source of our sense of Westerness. The link to a past that acts as a decryption key, that turns a series of points into an arc. It is the origin story of our view of the world in which we live. ... 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, 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! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To receive the illustrated guide to each episode and an invitation to the live Q&A on Thursday 16th April at 8pm, become a monthly supporter!

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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 currency...

The myth of the abduction of Europa is, in many ways, the most consequential one for modernity. It is the source of our sense of Westerness. The link to a past that acts as a decryption key, that turns a series of points into an arc. It is the origin story of our view of the world in which we live.

...

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, 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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Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

Additional research by Kos Mantzakos

A Cooler Heads podcast


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]]> 4442 no 2.3 EUROPA I: Quite a lot of bull https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey To receive the illustrated guide to each episode and an invitation to the live Q&A on Thursday 16th April at 8pm, become a monthly supporter! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** 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 currency... The myth of the abduction of Europa is, in many ways, the most consequential one for modernity. It is the source of our sense of Westerness. The link to a past that acts as a decryption key, that turns a series of points into an arc. It is the origin story of our view of the world in which we live. ... 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, 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! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:57:00 -0000 EUROPA I: Quite a lot of bull full 2 3 Alex Andreou Wait. Europe comes from Asia? To receive the illustrated guide to each episode and an invitation to the live Q&A on Thursday 16th April at 8pm, become a monthly supporter! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** 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 currency... The myth of the abduction of Europa is, in many ways, the most consequential one for modernity. It is the source of our sense of Westerness. The link to a past that acts as a decryption key, that turns a series of points into an arc. It is the origin story of our view of the world in which we live. ... 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, 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! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To receive the illustrated guide to each episode and an invitation to the live Q&A on Thursday 16th April at 8pm, become a monthly supporter!

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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 currency...

The myth of the abduction of Europa is, in many ways, the most consequential one for modernity. It is the source of our sense of Westerness. The link to a past that acts as a decryption key, that turns a series of points into an arc. It is the origin story of our view of the world in which we live.

...

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, 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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Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

Additional research by Kos Mantzakos

A Cooler Heads podcast


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]]> 3502 no BONUS: Pandora Live Q&A https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Make sure you are on ko-fi as a monthly subscriber, with the right email, so you get an invite to these LIVE sessions every other Thursday, as well as an illustrated guide to each episode. ... 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, 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! MUSIC Red River Dave, "I wish I had my first wife back", 1944 Richard Wagner, Lohengrin: "Mein lieber Schwan", Lauritz Melchior, 1938 *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos Illustrated Guide design by Daniel Block A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:49:00 -0000 Pandora Live Q&A bonus Alex Andreou How does one do a PhD in Xena? And what to do if you miss the last swan to Avalon. *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Make sure you are on ko-fi as a monthly subscriber, with the right email, so you get an invite to these LIVE sessions every other Thursday, as well as an illustrated guide to each episode. ... 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, 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! MUSIC Red River Dave, "I wish I had my first wife back", 1944 Richard Wagner, Lohengrin: "Mein lieber Schwan", Lauritz Melchior, 1938 *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos Illustrated Guide design by Daniel Block A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ***

Make sure you are on ko-fi as a monthly subscriber, with the right email, so you get an invite to these LIVE sessions every other Thursday, as well as an illustrated guide to each episode.

...

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, 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!


MUSIC

Red River Dave, "I wish I had my first wife back", 1944

Richard Wagner, Lohengrin: "Mein lieber Schwan", Lauritz Melchior, 1938


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Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

Additional research by Kos Mantzakos

Illustrated Guide design by Daniel Block

A Cooler Heads podcast


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]]> 3226 no 2.2 PANDORA: Worst. Unboxing. Video. Ever. https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey To receive the illustrated guide to each episode and an invitation to the live Q&A on Thursday 5th March at 8pm, become a monthly supporter! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** 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 shape. ... 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, 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! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:24:00 -0000 PANDORA: Worst. Unboxing. Video. Ever. full 2 2 Alex Andreou Wicked rulebreaker or the victim of a smear campaign? To receive the illustrated guide to each episode and an invitation to the live Q&A on Thursday 5th March at 8pm, become a monthly supporter! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** 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 shape. ... 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, 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! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices To receive the illustrated guide to each episode and an invitation to the live Q&A on Thursday 5th March at 8pm, become a monthly supporter!

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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 shape.

...

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, 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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Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

Additional research by Kos Mantzakos

A Cooler Heads podcast


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]]> 5481 Bonus PROMETHEUS: Live Q & A https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** 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 monthly subscriber, with the right email, so you get an invite to these LIVE sessions every other Thursday, as well as an illustrated guide to each episode. ... 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, 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! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:05:00 -0000 PROMETHEUS: Live Q & A bonus Alex Andreou From the etymology of Prometheus to Spurs appointing a new manager *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** 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 monthly subscriber, with the right email, so you get an invite to these LIVE sessions every other Thursday, as well as an illustrated guide to each episode. ... 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, 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! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ***

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 monthly subscriber, with the right email, so you get an invite to these LIVE sessions every other Thursday, as well as an illustrated guide to each episode.

...

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, 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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Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

Additional research by Kos Mantzakos

A Cooler Heads podcast


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]]> 2811 2.1 PROMETHEUS: I Don't Want to Set The World On Fire https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** 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 monthly subscriber, with the right email, so you get an interview to next week's LIVE episode on Prometheus. Thursday the 12th, at 8pm. ... 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, 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! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:04:00 -0000 PROMETHEUS: I Don't Want to Set The World On Fire full 2 1 Alex Andreou Protector or disruptor? One man; several contradictory myths. *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** 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 monthly subscriber, with the right email, so you get an interview to next week's LIVE episode on Prometheus. Thursday the 12th, at 8pm. ... 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, 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! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠ ***

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 monthly subscriber, with the right email, so you get an interview to next week's LIVE episode on Prometheus. Thursday the 12th, at 8pm.

...

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, 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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Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

Additional research by Kos Mantzakos

A Cooler Heads podcast


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]]> 5258 no The Beast In Me - Ancient Greece And Its Pets https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠ *** 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.  ... 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, 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! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:27:00 -0000 The Beast In Me - Ancient Greece And Its Pets bonus Alex Andreou The treatment of animals in Greek antiquity *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠ *** 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.  ... 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, 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! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠ ***

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. 

...

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, 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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Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, and Dr Ruth Smith

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

A Cooler Heads podcast


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]]> 2431 no BONUS - How Do You Like Them Golden Apples? https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠ *** 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. ... 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, 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! *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou A Cooler Heads podcast NOTES TO COME *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Wed, 26 Nov 2025 08:42:00 -0000 BONUS - How Do You Like Them Golden Apples? bonus Alex Andreou Are they innocent or are they dangerous? *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠ *** 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. ... 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, 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! *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou A Cooler Heads podcast NOTES TO COME *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠ ***

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.

...

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, 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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Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

A Cooler Heads podcast


NOTES

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]]> 3293 no Director's Cut: ECHO & NARCISSUS - The Influencer & The Follower https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠ *** 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.  ....... 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, 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!  Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou A Cooler Heads podcast NOTES MUSIC  Podyssey Theme: “⁠⁠To Margoudi ki o Alexandris⁠⁠”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission) Alphonse Hasselmans: Gitane Op.21, Rosa Spier, 1954 Antonio Vivaldi: LE QUATTRO STAGIONI "L'Estate" - Allegro, Henry Swoboda, 1950 Belle Baker: "Mad about the boy", 1939 Walter Feldkamp: "Reflections in the water", 1933 Domenico Bartolucci: "Crux Fidelis", Cappella Sistina, 1960 Charles Gounod: FAUST “Jewel Song”, Joan Sutherland, 1959 Camille Saint-Saëns: “The Swan”, Clara Rockmore, 1953 Giacomo Meyerbeer: DINORAH “Shadow Song”, Maria Callas, 1954 Lena Horne: "You go to my head", 1946 Daniel Pinkham: "Slow, slow fresh fount", John McCollum, 1961 Rudolf Friml: ROSE-MARIE “Indian Love Call”, Ann Blyth & Lorenzo Lamas, 1954 FILM The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134119⁠/ Snow White (1937) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029583/⁠  All About Eve (1950) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/⁠  The Shape of Water (2017)  ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5580390/⁠  The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037988/⁠  Black Swan (2010) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0947798/⁠  Ingrid Goes West (2017) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5962210/⁠  ART “Narcissus” by Caravaggio ⁠https://www.caravaggio.org/narcissus.jsp⁠  “Metamorphosis of Narcissus” by Salvador Dalí ⁠https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dali-metamorphosis-of-narcissus-t02343⁠  “The Nymph Echo” by Max Ernst ⁠https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79316⁠  Narcissus Fresco in Pompeii by Anon. ⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_%28mythology%29#/media/File:Narcissus_on_a_Pompeian_fresco.jpg⁠  “Echo and Narcissus” by John William Waterhouse ⁠https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/echo-and-narcissus⁠  “Narcissus” by Follower of Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio ⁠https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/follower-of-giovanni-antonio-boltraffio-narcissus⁠  "Mr. O'Wilde, You are not the first one that has grasped at a Shadow" by Thomas Nast   ⁠https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/820022⁠  *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Sun, 16 Nov 2025 07:04:00 -0000 Director's Cut: ECHO & NARCISSUS - The Influencer & The Follower full 1 1 Alex Andreou If Narcissus wasn't a narcissist, what is the meaning of the myth? *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠ *** 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.  ....... 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, 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!  Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou A Cooler Heads podcast NOTES MUSIC  Podyssey Theme: “⁠⁠To Margoudi ki o Alexandris⁠⁠”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission) Alphonse Hasselmans: Gitane Op.21, Rosa Spier, 1954 Antonio Vivaldi: LE QUATTRO STAGIONI "L'Estate" - Allegro, Henry Swoboda, 1950 Belle Baker: "Mad about the boy", 1939 Walter Feldkamp: "Reflections in the water", 1933 Domenico Bartolucci: "Crux Fidelis", Cappella Sistina, 1960 Charles Gounod: FAUST “Jewel Song”, Joan Sutherland, 1959 Camille Saint-Saëns: “The Swan”, Clara Rockmore, 1953 Giacomo Meyerbeer: DINORAH “Shadow Song”, Maria Callas, 1954 Lena Horne: "You go to my head", 1946 Daniel Pinkham: "Slow, slow fresh fount", John McCollum, 1961 Rudolf Friml: ROSE-MARIE “Indian Love Call”, Ann Blyth & Lorenzo Lamas, 1954 FILM The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134119⁠/ Snow White (1937) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029583/⁠  All About Eve (1950) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/⁠  The Shape of Water (2017)  ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5580390/⁠  The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037988/⁠  Black Swan (2010) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0947798/⁠  Ingrid Goes West (2017) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5962210/⁠  ART “Narcissus” by Caravaggio ⁠https://www.caravaggio.org/narcissus.jsp⁠  “Metamorphosis of Narcissus” by Salvador Dalí ⁠https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dali-metamorphosis-of-narcissus-t02343⁠  “The Nymph Echo” by Max Ernst ⁠https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79316⁠  Narcissus Fresco in Pompeii by Anon. ⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_%28mythology%29#/media/File:Narcissus_on_a_Pompeian_fresco.jpg⁠  “Echo and Narcissus” by John William Waterhouse ⁠https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/echo-and-narcissus⁠  “Narcissus” by Follower of Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio ⁠https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/follower-of-giovanni-antonio-boltraffio-narcissus⁠  "Mr. O'Wilde, You are not the first one that has grasped at a Shadow" by Thomas Nast   ⁠https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/820022⁠  *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠ *** Learn more about your ad choices. 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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. 

.......

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, 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! 


Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

A Cooler Heads podcast


NOTES

MUSIC 

Podyssey Theme: “⁠⁠To Margoudi ki o Alexandris⁠⁠”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission)

Alphonse Hasselmans: Gitane Op.21, Rosa Spier, 1954

Antonio Vivaldi: LE QUATTRO STAGIONI "L'Estate" - Allegro, Henry Swoboda, 1950

Belle Baker: "Mad about the boy", 1939

Walter Feldkamp: "Reflections in the water", 1933

Domenico Bartolucci: "Crux Fidelis", Cappella Sistina, 1960

Charles Gounod: FAUST “Jewel Song”, Joan Sutherland, 1959

Camille Saint-Saëns: “The Swan”, Clara Rockmore, 1953

Giacomo Meyerbeer: DINORAH “Shadow Song”, Maria Callas, 1954

Lena Horne: "You go to my head", 1946

Daniel Pinkham: "Slow, slow fresh fount", John McCollum, 1961

Rudolf Friml: ROSE-MARIE “Indian Love Call”, Ann Blyth & Lorenzo Lamas, 1954


FILM

The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134119⁠/

Snow White (1937) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029583/⁠ 

All About Eve (1950) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/⁠ 

The Shape of Water (2017)  ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5580390/⁠ 

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037988/⁠ 

Black Swan (2010) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0947798/⁠ 

Ingrid Goes West (2017) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5962210/⁠ 


ART

“Narcissus” by Caravaggio ⁠https://www.caravaggio.org/narcissus.jsp⁠ 

“Metamorphosis of Narcissus” by Salvador Dalí ⁠https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dali-metamorphosis-of-narcissus-t02343⁠ 

“The Nymph Echo” by Max Ernst ⁠https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79316⁠ 

Narcissus Fresco in Pompeii by Anon. ⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_%28mythology%29#/media/File:Narcissus_on_a_Pompeian_fresco.jpg⁠ 

“Echo and Narcissus” by John William Waterhouse ⁠https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/echo-and-narcissus⁠ 

“Narcissus” by Follower of Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio ⁠https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/follower-of-giovanni-antonio-boltraffio-narcissus⁠ 

"Mr. O'Wilde, You are not the first one that has grasped at a Shadow" by Thomas Nast 

 ⁠https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/820022⁠ 


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]]> 4029 no Podyssey Season 2 - All The Details https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/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, 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!  …  *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou A Cooler Heads coproduction NOTES MUSIC Podyssey Theme: “⁠⁠To Margoudi ki o Alexandris⁠⁠”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission) Irving Berlin: “⁠I'm beginning to miss you”, Jon and Sondra Steele, 1949 Lerner & Lowe: ⁠“⁠⁠Come to me, bend to me⁠”, Floyd Sherman, 1947 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Tue, 04 Nov 2025 04:29:00 -0000 Podyssey Season 2 - All The Details bonus Alex Andreou When. Where. What. *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/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, 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!  …  *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou A Cooler Heads coproduction NOTES MUSIC Podyssey Theme: “⁠⁠To Margoudi ki o Alexandris⁠⁠”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission) Irving Berlin: “⁠I'm beginning to miss you”, Jon and Sondra Steele, 1949 Lerner & Lowe: ⁠“⁠⁠Come to me, bend to me⁠”, Floyd Sherman, 1947 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/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, 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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A Cooler Heads coproduction


NOTES

MUSIC

Podyssey Theme: “⁠⁠To Margoudi ki o Alexandris⁠⁠”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission)

Irving Berlin: “⁠I'm beginning to miss you”, Jon and Sondra Steele, 1949

Lerner & Lowe: ⁠“⁠⁠Come to me, bend to me⁠”, Floyd Sherman, 1947

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]]> 545 no 10. MEDUSA - Here's Looking at You, Kid https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠KO-FI.COM/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, 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!  …  Before Medusa was monstrous, she was beautiful. And before she was beautiful, she was powerful. Everything I thought I knew was wrong. She is a riddle that defies solution, because she comes from a time before the shape of things was settled. She laughs. TW - rape, sexual assault, male violence *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC Podyssey Theme: “⁠To Margoudi ki o Alexandris⁠”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission) Sergei Rachmaninov: “The Isle of The Dead, Op.29”, Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1949 Béla Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, Harold Byrns, 1949 Dinah Washington: “You go to my head”, live 1954  Betty Hutton: “Why do you wanna make those eyes at me for?”, 1945 Giacomo Puccini: Tosca, Act II Finale, Adriana Guerrini & Paolo Silveri, 1952  Frances Faye: “Dummy Song”, 1953 The Mort Lindsey Trio: “Jeepers Creepers”, 1953  The Toppers: “Don’t be angry”, 1955  WA Mozart: Don Giovanni, Vengeance Duet, Maria Curtis Verna & Cesare Valletti, 1956  Gaetano Donizetti, Anna Bolena “Coppia iniqua”, Maria Callas, 1959  Leslie Hutchinson, “Close your eyes”, 1932   FILM  Clash of The Titans (1981) Marnie (1964) I Spit on Your Grave (1978) Revenge (2017) Serial Mom (1984) Carrie (1976) Gilda (1946) Gone Girl (2014) Les Diaboliques (1955) The First Wives Club (1996) Ex Machina (2014)  The Omen (1976)  Hereditary (2018) Midsommar (2019) Raiders of The Lost Ark (1981) Mars Attacks (1996) Alien (1979) The Thing (1982) ART  Prehistoric figures believed to be early “gorgoneia”, Thessaly, c.6000 BCE “Danaë” by Antonio de Correggio, c.1531  “Danaë” by Gustav Klimt, 1907  Gigantomachy pediment, Old Athena Temple, Acropolis, Athens 525-520 BCE Gilgamesh and Enkidu slaying Humbaba at the Cedar Forest, Sumerian, 19-17C BCE  Perseus beheading the sleeping Medusa, red figure terracotta pelike, by Polygnotos (attr.) c.450–440 BCE  Medusa Victorious, Archaic marble sculpture, Paros, mid-6C BCE   Archaic Gorgon, temple of Artemis, Corfu, c.580 BCE  Medusa and Centaurs, early black figure vase, by Nessos, c.620 BCE  Examples of "Gorgoneion" masks and ornaments, from 6th Century BCE  “Medusa”, painted shield by Caravaggio, 1597  “Perseus with the Head of Medusa”, Benvenuto Cellini, c.1550 “Dreadlocks”, Times cartoon, 2015  “Trump & Triumph” after Cellini, meme and merchandise, 2016 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Fri, 19 Sep 2025 05:55:00 -0000 MEDUSA - Here's Looking at You, Kid full 1 10 Alex Andreou From a time before the shape of things was settled, comes a riddle with no answer *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠KO-FI.COM/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, 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!  …  Before Medusa was monstrous, she was beautiful. And before she was beautiful, she was powerful. Everything I thought I knew was wrong. She is a riddle that defies solution, because she comes from a time before the shape of things was settled. She laughs. TW - rape, sexual assault, male violence *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC Podyssey Theme: “⁠To Margoudi ki o Alexandris⁠”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission) Sergei Rachmaninov: “The Isle of The Dead, Op.29”, Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1949 Béla Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, Harold Byrns, 1949 Dinah Washington: “You go to my head”, live 1954  Betty Hutton: “Why do you wanna make those eyes at me for?”, 1945 Giacomo Puccini: Tosca, Act II Finale, Adriana Guerrini & Paolo Silveri, 1952  Frances Faye: “Dummy Song”, 1953 The Mort Lindsey Trio: “Jeepers Creepers”, 1953  The Toppers: “Don’t be angry”, 1955  WA Mozart: Don Giovanni, Vengeance Duet, Maria Curtis Verna & Cesare Valletti, 1956  Gaetano Donizetti, Anna Bolena “Coppia iniqua”, Maria Callas, 1959  Leslie Hutchinson, “Close your eyes”, 1932   FILM  Clash of The Titans (1981) Marnie (1964) I Spit on Your Grave (1978) Revenge (2017) Serial Mom (1984) Carrie (1976) Gilda (1946) Gone Girl (2014) Les Diaboliques (1955) The First Wives Club (1996) Ex Machina (2014)  The Omen (1976)  Hereditary (2018) Midsommar (2019) Raiders of The Lost Ark (1981) Mars Attacks (1996) Alien (1979) The Thing (1982) ART  Prehistoric figures believed to be early “gorgoneia”, Thessaly, c.6000 BCE “Danaë” by Antonio de Correggio, c.1531  “Danaë” by Gustav Klimt, 1907  Gigantomachy pediment, Old Athena Temple, Acropolis, Athens 525-520 BCE Gilgamesh and Enkidu slaying Humbaba at the Cedar Forest, Sumerian, 19-17C BCE  Perseus beheading the sleeping Medusa, red figure terracotta pelike, by Polygnotos (attr.) c.450–440 BCE  Medusa Victorious, Archaic marble sculpture, Paros, mid-6C BCE   Archaic Gorgon, temple of Artemis, Corfu, c.580 BCE  Medusa and Centaurs, early black figure vase, by Nessos, c.620 BCE  Examples of "Gorgoneion" masks and ornaments, from 6th Century BCE  “Medusa”, painted shield by Caravaggio, 1597  “Perseus with the Head of Medusa”, Benvenuto Cellini, c.1550 “Dreadlocks”, Times cartoon, 2015  “Trump & Triumph” after Cellini, meme and merchandise, 2016 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠KO-FI.COM/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, 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! 

… 

Before Medusa was monstrous, she was beautiful. And before she was beautiful, she was powerful. Everything I thought I knew was wrong. She is a riddle that defies solution, because she comes from a time before the shape of things was settled. She laughs.


TW - rape, sexual assault, male violence


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Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global


NOTES

MUSIC

Podyssey Theme: “⁠To Margoudi ki o Alexandris⁠”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission)

Sergei Rachmaninov: “The Isle of The Dead, Op.29”, Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1949

Béla Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, Harold Byrns, 1949

Dinah Washington: “You go to my head”, live 1954 

Betty Hutton: “Why do you wanna make those eyes at me for?”, 1945

Giacomo Puccini: Tosca, Act II Finale, Adriana Guerrini & Paolo Silveri, 1952 

Frances Faye: “Dummy Song”, 1953

The Mort Lindsey Trio: “Jeepers Creepers”, 1953 

The Toppers: “Don’t be angry”, 1955 

WA Mozart: Don Giovanni, Vengeance Duet, Maria Curtis Verna & Cesare Valletti, 1956 

Gaetano Donizetti, Anna Bolena “Coppia iniqua”, Maria Callas, 1959 

Leslie Hutchinson, “Close your eyes”, 1932

 

FILM 

Clash of The Titans (1981)

Marnie (1964)

I Spit on Your Grave (1978)

Revenge (2017)

Serial Mom (1984)

Carrie (1976)

Gilda (1946)

Gone Girl (2014)

Les Diaboliques (1955)

The First Wives Club (1996)

Ex Machina (2014) 

The Omen (1976) 

Hereditary (2018)

Midsommar (2019)

Raiders of The Lost Ark (1981)

Mars Attacks (1996)

Alien (1979)

The Thing (1982)


ART 

Prehistoric figures believed to be early “gorgoneia”, Thessaly, c.6000 BCE

“Danaë” by Antonio de Correggio, c.1531 

“Danaë” by Gustav Klimt, 1907 

Gigantomachy pediment, Old Athena Temple, Acropolis, Athens 525-520 BCE

Gilgamesh and Enkidu slaying Humbaba at the Cedar Forest, Sumerian, 19-17C BCE 

Perseus beheading the sleeping Medusa, red figure terracotta pelike, by Polygnotos (attr.) c.450–440 BCE 

Medusa Victorious, Archaic marble sculpture, Paros, mid-6C BCE  

Archaic Gorgon, temple of Artemis, Corfu, c.580 BCE 

Medusa and Centaurs, early black figure vase, by Nessos, c.620 BCE 

Examples of "Gorgoneion" masks and ornaments, from 6th Century BCE 

“Medusa”, painted shield by Caravaggio, 1597 

“Perseus with the Head of Medusa”, Benvenuto Cellini, c.1550

“Dreadlocks”, Times cartoon, 2015 

“Trump & Triumph” after Cellini, meme and merchandise, 2016

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]]> 5729 no The Miller, His Son, and Their Donkey: A Fable by Aesop for Modern Politicians https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey Subscribe to "Alex Andreou's Podyssey" on your favourite podcast app for the full three-part saga on Aesop - and the rest of Season 1, available now. *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** 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. 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 tentacles, juice it for its wisdom, refresh, clean and put it back together - all shiny and new!  *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Sun, 17 Aug 2025 08:34:00 -0000 The Miller, His Son, and Their Donkey: A Fable by Aesop for Modern Politicians bonus Alex Andreou A visualised treat from Alex Andreou's Podyssey series Subscribe to "Alex Andreou's Podyssey" on your favourite podcast app for the full three-part saga on Aesop - and the rest of Season 1, available now. *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** 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. 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 tentacles, juice it for its wisdom, refresh, clean and put it back together - all shiny and new!  *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Subscribe to "Alex Andreou's Podyssey" on your favourite podcast app for the full three-part saga on Aesop - and the rest of Season 1, available now.


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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.


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 tentacles, juice it for its wisdom, refresh, clean and put it back together - all shiny and new! 


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Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global

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]]> 276 no 9. AESOP III - How to Lose a Donkey in 10 Ways https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠ *** 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. 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 tentacles, juice it for its wisdom, refresh, clean and put it back together - all shiny and new!  "Our Aesop-muscle has atrophied. We have forgotten how to craft and tell our stories - and in the process forgotten how to listen to the stories of others. Humanity without stories is humanity with no identity." "How the story made us feel is what we store and recall - not the hard logic, nor the facts and figures. And while it is ludicrous to say 'people have had enough of experts', it’s perfectly fair to say that they have had enough of how their teaching style makes them feel." *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC Podyssey Theme: “To Margoudi ki o Alexandris”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission) Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Concerto No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra ("The Prophets”), Jascha Heifetz 1956 Dorothy Collins: “To Make A Long Story Short”, 1953 Hans Werner Henze: Moralitäten 1. Teil, conducted by the composer, 1968 Tom Lehrer: “Smut”, public domain, 1965 Sandra Church: Gypsy “Little Lamb”, 1959 Giorgos Gounaris: “To Pazari” (The Market), 1939 Jean-Philippe Rameau: “Platée”, Michel Sénéchal, 1956 Gioachino Rossini: “Duetto Buffo di Due Gatti”, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf & Victoria de los Angeles, Royal Festival Hall, 1967 Modest Mussorgsky: “The Song of The Flea”, Feodor Chaliapin, 1936 Gerónimo Giménez: La Tempranica “La Tarantula”, Victoria de los Angeles, BBC 1968 Bizet: “La Coccinelle”, Cecilia Bartoli, (fair usage for review) 1996 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte “Pa-pa-pa-gena”, Walter Berry & Emmy Loose, 1955 Emma Papikyan: “Dzidzernak” (Swallow), Armenia Radio Archives, 1993 Saint-Saens: Parysatis "Le Rossignol Et La Rose" , Mado Robin, RTF archive 1954 Manos Hadjidakis: “Magiki Poli” (Magical City), Zoe Maggou, 1954 Leoš Janáček: Cunning Little Vixen - Finale, Prague National Theatre, 1958 Jerome Kern: Show Boat “Make Believe”, Marion Marlowe & Frank Parker, 1953 ART Frans Snyders: "The Cock and the Jewel", oil on canvas 1620 - Auckland Art Gallery Agnes Miller Parker: “The Cock and the Jewel”, wood engraving c1931 - private collection “The Cock and the Jewel”, Chelsea Porcelain, c1770 - Fitzwilliam Museum “The Cock and the Jewel”, pendant in gold and pearl with rubies, Dutch 16C - private collection “The Miller, His Son, And Their Ass”, John Tenniel illustrations, 1882  FILM “Fantastic Mr. Fox” 2009 “Bambi” 1942 “Spirited Away” 2001 “Howl’s Moving Castle” 2004 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Tue, 12 Aug 2025 08:28:00 -0000 AESOP III - How to Lose a Donkey in 10 Ways full 1 9 Alex Andreou Humanity without stories is humanity with no identity *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠ *** 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. 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 tentacles, juice it for its wisdom, refresh, clean and put it back together - all shiny and new!  "Our Aesop-muscle has atrophied. We have forgotten how to craft and tell our stories - and in the process forgotten how to listen to the stories of others. Humanity without stories is humanity with no identity." "How the story made us feel is what we store and recall - not the hard logic, nor the facts and figures. And while it is ludicrous to say 'people have had enough of experts', it’s perfectly fair to say that they have had enough of how their teaching style makes them feel." *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC Podyssey Theme: “To Margoudi ki o Alexandris”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission) Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Concerto No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra ("The Prophets”), Jascha Heifetz 1956 Dorothy Collins: “To Make A Long Story Short”, 1953 Hans Werner Henze: Moralitäten 1. Teil, conducted by the composer, 1968 Tom Lehrer: “Smut”, public domain, 1965 Sandra Church: Gypsy “Little Lamb”, 1959 Giorgos Gounaris: “To Pazari” (The Market), 1939 Jean-Philippe Rameau: “Platée”, Michel Sénéchal, 1956 Gioachino Rossini: “Duetto Buffo di Due Gatti”, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf & Victoria de los Angeles, Royal Festival Hall, 1967 Modest Mussorgsky: “The Song of The Flea”, Feodor Chaliapin, 1936 Gerónimo Giménez: La Tempranica “La Tarantula”, Victoria de los Angeles, BBC 1968 Bizet: “La Coccinelle”, Cecilia Bartoli, (fair usage for review) 1996 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte “Pa-pa-pa-gena”, Walter Berry & Emmy Loose, 1955 Emma Papikyan: “Dzidzernak” (Swallow), Armenia Radio Archives, 1993 Saint-Saens: Parysatis "Le Rossignol Et La Rose" , Mado Robin, RTF archive 1954 Manos Hadjidakis: “Magiki Poli” (Magical City), Zoe Maggou, 1954 Leoš Janáček: Cunning Little Vixen - Finale, Prague National Theatre, 1958 Jerome Kern: Show Boat “Make Believe”, Marion Marlowe & Frank Parker, 1953 ART Frans Snyders: "The Cock and the Jewel", oil on canvas 1620 - Auckland Art Gallery Agnes Miller Parker: “The Cock and the Jewel”, wood engraving c1931 - private collection “The Cock and the Jewel”, Chelsea Porcelain, c1770 - Fitzwilliam Museum “The Cock and the Jewel”, pendant in gold and pearl with rubies, Dutch 16C - private collection “The Miller, His Son, And Their Ass”, John Tenniel illustrations, 1882  FILM “Fantastic Mr. Fox” 2009 “Bambi” 1942 “Spirited Away” 2001 “Howl’s Moving Castle” 2004 Learn more about your ad choices. 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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.


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 tentacles, juice it for its wisdom, refresh, clean and put it back together - all shiny and new! 

"Our Aesop-muscle has atrophied. We have forgotten how to craft and tell our stories - and in the process forgotten how to listen to the stories of others. Humanity without stories is humanity with no identity."

"How the story made us feel is what we store and recall - not the hard logic, nor the facts and figures. And while it is ludicrous to say 'people have had enough of experts', it’s perfectly fair to say that they have had enough of how their teaching style makes them feel."


*** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠⁠ ***


Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global


NOTES

MUSIC

Podyssey Theme: “To Margoudi ki o Alexandris”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission)

Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Concerto No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra ("The Prophets”), Jascha Heifetz 1956

Dorothy Collins: “To Make A Long Story Short”, 1953

Hans Werner Henze: Moralitäten 1. Teil, conducted by the composer, 1968

Tom Lehrer: “Smut”, public domain, 1965

Sandra Church: Gypsy “Little Lamb”, 1959

Giorgos Gounaris: “To Pazari” (The Market), 1939

Jean-Philippe Rameau: “Platée”, Michel Sénéchal, 1956

Gioachino Rossini: “Duetto Buffo di Due Gatti”, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf & Victoria de los Angeles, Royal Festival Hall, 1967

Modest Mussorgsky: “The Song of The Flea”, Feodor Chaliapin, 1936

Gerónimo Giménez: La Tempranica “La Tarantula”, Victoria de los Angeles, BBC 1968

Bizet: “La Coccinelle”, Cecilia Bartoli, (fair usage for review) 1996

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte “Pa-pa-pa-gena”, Walter Berry & Emmy Loose, 1955

Emma Papikyan: “Dzidzernak” (Swallow), Armenia Radio Archives, 1993

Saint-Saens: Parysatis "Le Rossignol Et La Rose" , Mado Robin, RTF archive 1954

Manos Hadjidakis: “Magiki Poli” (Magical City), Zoe Maggou, 1954

Leoš Janáček: Cunning Little Vixen - Finale, Prague National Theatre, 1958

Jerome Kern: Show Boat “Make Believe”, Marion Marlowe & Frank Parker, 1953


ART

Frans Snyders: "The Cock and the Jewel", oil on canvas 1620 - Auckland Art Gallery

Agnes Miller Parker: “The Cock and the Jewel”, wood engraving c1931 - private collection

“The Cock and the Jewel”, Chelsea Porcelain, c1770 - Fitzwilliam Museum

“The Cock and the Jewel”, pendant in gold and pearl with rubies, Dutch 16C - private collection

“The Miller, His Son, And Their Ass”, John Tenniel illustrations, 1882 


FILM

“Fantastic Mr. Fox” 2009

“Bambi” 1942

“Spirited Away” 2001

“Howl’s Moving Castle” 2004

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]]> 4783 no 8. AESOP II - A dolphin and a seagull were hurling insults at each other https://feeds.megaphone.fm/quietriot *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠ *** 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!  …  Last week we explored the complicated, and largely made-up, biography that is "The Aesop Romance". In this part I talk to experts to try and understand why it is that we need a "back story" for the creators of stories that we connect with, what is the difference between a reliable and unreliable narrator, how populism has refined the art of story-telling, and why only better stories - not better facts - can help us. *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC  Podyssey Theme: “To Margoudi ki o Alexandris”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission) ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-LAVj5l9Uc⁠⁠ Rimsky-Korsakov: "Scheherazade; 2nd Movement"; Societe de Concerts Du Conservatoire, Ernest Ansermet 1955 https://archive.org/details/lp_scheherazade Bernice Parks: "You Intrigue Me" 1952 https://archive.org/details/78_you-intrigue-me_bernice-parks Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani "In alto mare... Coraggio!", Maria Callas 1951 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibMCTUPC_6g Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffman " O Dieu, de quelle ivresse" (reprise), Raoul Jobin 1950 https://archive.org/details/lp_the-tales-of-hoffman Anton Karas: The Third Man "Harry Lime Theme", Hermann Stachow 1950 https://archive.org/details/78_harry-limes-melodi Ravel: Shéhérazade "1. Asie", Suzanne Danco 1955 https://archive.org/details/lp_le-roi-david-sheherazade Mahalia Jackson: "MyStory" 1953 https://archive.org/details/78_my-story_mahalia-jackson Verdi: Il Trovatore "Condotta all'era", Cloe Elmo 1941 https://archive.org/details/cloe-elmo-giuseppe-verdi Rossini: La Cenerentola "Questo e un nodo avviluppato", Glyndebourne Company 1955 https://archive.org/details/lp_la-cenerentola_gioacchino-rossini ART Attic red-figure Kylix, circa 5C BCE, Vatican Museum. A sample "Karagiozis" 19C folk shadow puppet figure, for comparison. Plaster casts of the Hellenistic statue believed to be of Aesop, avec and sans fig leaf. Aesopus (c. 1639-40), by Diego Velazquez. Chelsea porcelain figure of Aesop as a black man, c.1755, and candlestick depicting the fable of The Cockerel and The Jewel, c.1780, Fitzwilliam Museum. Aesop Telling his Fables, by Johann Michael Wittmer, 1855, Royal Collection. Illustration by Kawanabe Kyōsai for the Japanese 1770 edition of "Aesop's Fables for All". FILM - Coming Soon SOURCES - Coming Soon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Thu, 07 Aug 2025 13:21:00 -0000 AESOP II - A dolphin and a seagull were hurling insults at each other full 1 8 Alex Andreou How to construct the truth out of lies *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠ *** 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!  …  Last week we explored the complicated, and largely made-up, biography that is "The Aesop Romance". In this part I talk to experts to try and understand why it is that we need a "back story" for the creators of stories that we connect with, what is the difference between a reliable and unreliable narrator, how populism has refined the art of story-telling, and why only better stories - not better facts - can help us. *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC  Podyssey Theme: “To Margoudi ki o Alexandris”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission) ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-LAVj5l9Uc⁠⁠ Rimsky-Korsakov: "Scheherazade; 2nd Movement"; Societe de Concerts Du Conservatoire, Ernest Ansermet 1955 https://archive.org/details/lp_scheherazade Bernice Parks: "You Intrigue Me" 1952 https://archive.org/details/78_you-intrigue-me_bernice-parks Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani "In alto mare... Coraggio!", Maria Callas 1951 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibMCTUPC_6g Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffman " O Dieu, de quelle ivresse" (reprise), Raoul Jobin 1950 https://archive.org/details/lp_the-tales-of-hoffman Anton Karas: The Third Man "Harry Lime Theme", Hermann Stachow 1950 https://archive.org/details/78_harry-limes-melodi Ravel: Shéhérazade "1. Asie", Suzanne Danco 1955 https://archive.org/details/lp_le-roi-david-sheherazade Mahalia Jackson: "MyStory" 1953 https://archive.org/details/78_my-story_mahalia-jackson Verdi: Il Trovatore "Condotta all'era", Cloe Elmo 1941 https://archive.org/details/cloe-elmo-giuseppe-verdi Rossini: La Cenerentola "Questo e un nodo avviluppato", Glyndebourne Company 1955 https://archive.org/details/lp_la-cenerentola_gioacchino-rossini ART Attic red-figure Kylix, circa 5C BCE, Vatican Museum. A sample "Karagiozis" 19C folk shadow puppet figure, for comparison. Plaster casts of the Hellenistic statue believed to be of Aesop, avec and sans fig leaf. Aesopus (c. 1639-40), by Diego Velazquez. Chelsea porcelain figure of Aesop as a black man, c.1755, and candlestick depicting the fable of The Cockerel and The Jewel, c.1780, Fitzwilliam Museum. Aesop Telling his Fables, by Johann Michael Wittmer, 1855, Royal Collection. Illustration by Kawanabe Kyōsai for the Japanese 1770 edition of "Aesop's Fables for All". FILM - Coming Soon SOURCES - Coming Soon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠ ***


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! 

… 

Last week we explored the complicated, and largely made-up, biography that is "The Aesop Romance". In this part I talk to experts to try and understand why it is that we need a "back story" for the creators of stories that we connect with, what is the difference between a reliable and unreliable narrator, how populism has refined the art of story-telling, and why only better stories - not better facts - can help us.


*** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠⁠ ***


Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global


NOTES


MUSIC 

Podyssey Theme: “To Margoudi ki o Alexandris”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission)

⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-LAVj5l9Uc⁠⁠


Rimsky-Korsakov: "Scheherazade; 2nd Movement"; Societe de Concerts Du Conservatoire, Ernest Ansermet 1955

https://archive.org/details/lp_scheherazade


Bernice Parks: "You Intrigue Me" 1952

https://archive.org/details/78_you-intrigue-me_bernice-parks


Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani "In alto mare... Coraggio!", Maria Callas 1951

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibMCTUPC_6g


Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffman " O Dieu, de quelle ivresse" (reprise), Raoul Jobin 1950

https://archive.org/details/lp_the-tales-of-hoffman


Anton Karas: The Third Man "Harry Lime Theme", Hermann Stachow 1950

https://archive.org/details/78_harry-limes-melodi


Ravel: Shéhérazade "1. Asie", Suzanne Danco 1955

https://archive.org/details/lp_le-roi-david-sheherazade


Mahalia Jackson: "MyStory" 1953

https://archive.org/details/78_my-story_mahalia-jackson


Verdi: Il Trovatore "Condotta all'era", Cloe Elmo 1941

https://archive.org/details/cloe-elmo-giuseppe-verdi


Rossini: La Cenerentola "Questo e un nodo avviluppato", Glyndebourne Company 1955

https://archive.org/details/lp_la-cenerentola_gioacchino-rossini


ART


Attic red-figure Kylix, circa 5C BCE, Vatican Museum.

A sample "Karagiozis" 19C folk shadow puppet figure, for comparison.

Plaster casts of the Hellenistic statue believed to be of Aesop, avec and sans fig leaf.

Aesopus (c. 1639-40), by Diego Velazquez.

Chelsea porcelain figure of Aesop as a black man, c.1755, and candlestick depicting the fable of The Cockerel and The Jewel, c.1780, Fitzwilliam Museum.

Aesop Telling his Fables, by Johann Michael Wittmer, 1855, Royal Collection.

Illustration by Kawanabe Kyōsai for the Japanese 1770 edition of "Aesop's Fables for All".

FILM - Coming Soon

SOURCES - Coming Soon

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]]> 4342 no 7. AESOP I - Virtue Signaller or Fake News Merchant? https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠ *** 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!  …  Stories have had a moral, for as long as we have told stories. This week, Aesop; A crowd-sourced literary celebrity. What is the fact and what is the fiction? And why it matters. Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC  Podyssey Theme: “To Margoudi ki o Alexandris”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission) ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-LAVj5l9Uc⁠ César Cui: "Orientale"; Capitol Symphony Orch, Carmen Dragon 1958 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDx-kRbXoCU Xiomara Alfaro: "Angelitos Negros" 1957 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_9XyHOHiLw Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Winifred Atwell 1957 https://archive.org/details/lp_winifred-atwell-plays-gershwin_winifred-atwell-ted-heath-and-his-music/disc1/01.01.+Rhapsody+In+Blue.mp3 Charlie Gore: "Absolutely Free", 1953 https://archive.org/details/78_absolutely-free_charlie-gore-charlie-gore-gore-young_gbia0484950b Manos Hadjidakis: "The Myth", Christiana, 1960 https://archive.org/details/lp_ilios-thalassa.mp3 Richard Strauss: Dance of the Seven Veils from "Salome", Paul Paray, 1959 https://archive.org/details/lp_the-heart-of-the-opera_antal-dorati-paul-paray-detroit-symphony-o/disc1/02.01.+Dance+Of+The+Seven+Veils+From+%22Salome%22.mp3 Manouche: "Miri Louloudi", 1989 (with permission) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMtzBs5bSIE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Sun, 13 Jul 2025 09:13:00 -0000 7. AESOP I - Virtue Signaller or Fake News Merchant? full 1 7 Alex Andreou Let us begin at the beginning *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠ *** 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!  …  Stories have had a moral, for as long as we have told stories. This week, Aesop; A crowd-sourced literary celebrity. What is the fact and what is the fiction? And why it matters. Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC  Podyssey Theme: “To Margoudi ki o Alexandris”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission) ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-LAVj5l9Uc⁠ César Cui: "Orientale"; Capitol Symphony Orch, Carmen Dragon 1958 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDx-kRbXoCU Xiomara Alfaro: "Angelitos Negros" 1957 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_9XyHOHiLw Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Winifred Atwell 1957 https://archive.org/details/lp_winifred-atwell-plays-gershwin_winifred-atwell-ted-heath-and-his-music/disc1/01.01.+Rhapsody+In+Blue.mp3 Charlie Gore: "Absolutely Free", 1953 https://archive.org/details/78_absolutely-free_charlie-gore-charlie-gore-gore-young_gbia0484950b Manos Hadjidakis: "The Myth", Christiana, 1960 https://archive.org/details/lp_ilios-thalassa.mp3 Richard Strauss: Dance of the Seven Veils from "Salome", Paul Paray, 1959 https://archive.org/details/lp_the-heart-of-the-opera_antal-dorati-paul-paray-detroit-symphony-o/disc1/02.01.+Dance+Of+The+Seven+Veils+From+%22Salome%22.mp3 Manouche: "Miri Louloudi", 1989 (with permission) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMtzBs5bSIE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠ ***


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! 

… 

Stories have had a moral, for as long as we have told stories. This week, Aesop; A crowd-sourced literary celebrity. What is the fact and what is the fiction? And why it matters.


Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global


NOTES


MUSIC 

Podyssey Theme: “To Margoudi ki o Alexandris”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission)

⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-LAVj5l9Uc⁠


César Cui: "Orientale"; Capitol Symphony Orch, Carmen Dragon 1958

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDx-kRbXoCU


Xiomara Alfaro: "Angelitos Negros" 1957

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_9XyHOHiLw


Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Winifred Atwell 1957

https://archive.org/details/lp_winifred-atwell-plays-gershwin_winifred-atwell-ted-heath-and-his-music/disc1/01.01.+Rhapsody+In+Blue.mp3


Charlie Gore: "Absolutely Free", 1953

https://archive.org/details/78_absolutely-free_charlie-gore-charlie-gore-gore-young_gbia0484950b


Manos Hadjidakis: "The Myth", Christiana, 1960

https://archive.org/details/lp_ilios-thalassa.mp3


Richard Strauss: Dance of the Seven Veils from "Salome", Paul Paray, 1959

https://archive.org/details/lp_the-heart-of-the-opera_antal-dorati-paul-paray-detroit-symphony-o/disc1/02.01.+Dance+Of+The+Seven+Veils+From+%22Salome%22.mp3


Manouche: "Miri Louloudi", 1989 (with permission)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMtzBs5bSIE

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]]> 2651 no BONUS - No thing is just one thing https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey *** SUPPORT A SECOND SEASON ON ⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠ *** 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 and filed away - something which every contributor to this podcast seems to share; a compulsion to explore not just our allotted piece of the puzzle, but how the pieces connect. _________________ 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, 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! _____________ Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Sat, 24 May 2025 03:58:00 -0000 BONUS - No thing is just one thing bonus Alex Andreou In conversation with cultural historian Dr. Debbie Challis. *** SUPPORT A SECOND SEASON ON ⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠ *** 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 and filed away - something which every contributor to this podcast seems to share; a compulsion to explore not just our allotted piece of the puzzle, but how the pieces connect. _________________ 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, 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! _____________ Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices *** SUPPORT A SECOND SEASON ON ⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠ ***


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 and filed away - something which every contributor to this podcast seems to share; a compulsion to explore not just our allotted piece of the puzzle, but how the pieces connect.

_________________


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, 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!


_____________


Written and presented by Alex Andreou


Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global

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]]> 2072 no 6. Cassandra - Everything Must Be Said Again https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/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, 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!  …  There is an elegant symmetry to Cassandra being misunderstood - still, millennia later - as a symbol for pessimism. A prophet of doom. But that wasn’t her curse at all. Her curse was to have true insight and yet be unable to get those around her to listen. And is the reason we prioritise some voices over others not the central, existential question at a time when real knowledge struggles to make itself heard over a chorus of populism? What wooden horses have we let through our cities’ gates? Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC  Oluf Dimitri Røe: “Fajum” ON YOUTUBE  Aldo Ciccolini: Erik Satie “Gnossiennes No.1 FROM ARCHIVE Lulu Belle: “Never take ‘no’ for an answer” FROM ARCHIVE  ON ft Marianna Sangita: “Et Glimt” ON YOUTUBE     Risë Stevens: Bizet; Carmen “Card Scene” FROM ARCHIVE  Betty Lou Allen: J.S.C. Bach; Cassandra Cantata FROM ARCHIVE Fedora Barbieri: Verdi; Un Ballo in Maschera “Re dell’abisso” FROM ARCHIVE  Marisa Ferrer & Charles Cambon: Berlioz; Les Troyens "Reviens a toi, vierge adorée” FROM ARCHIVE  Anna Maria Alberghetti: “They didn’t believe me” FROM ARCHIVE  FILM Helen of Troy 1956 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049301/ Scream 2 1997 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120082/ The Matrix 1999 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/ The Eyes of Laura Mars 1978 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077530/ Doctor Sleep 2019 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5606664/ Nightmare Alley 2021 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7740496/ Agamemnon 1983 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UyouI7BUsI Promising Young Woman 2020 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9620292/ Kaos 2024 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8550732/ Don't Look Up 2021 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11286314/ ART Attic Red cup with the taking of Cassandra Terracotta amphora with the taking of Cassandra Evelyn de Morgan's Cassandra Pompeii mosaic of Ajax dragging Cassandra from Palladium. Solomon J. Solomon's Ajax & Cassandra Ronsard's "Avant le temps tes tempes fleuriront" Louise Bogan's "Cassandra" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Sun, 11 May 2025 01:27:00 -0000 Cassandra - Everything Must Be Said Again full 1 6 Alex Andreou Unheeded Wisdom or Unnecessary Pessimism? *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/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, 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!  …  There is an elegant symmetry to Cassandra being misunderstood - still, millennia later - as a symbol for pessimism. A prophet of doom. But that wasn’t her curse at all. Her curse was to have true insight and yet be unable to get those around her to listen. And is the reason we prioritise some voices over others not the central, existential question at a time when real knowledge struggles to make itself heard over a chorus of populism? What wooden horses have we let through our cities’ gates? Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC  Oluf Dimitri Røe: “Fajum” ON YOUTUBE  Aldo Ciccolini: Erik Satie “Gnossiennes No.1 FROM ARCHIVE Lulu Belle: “Never take ‘no’ for an answer” FROM ARCHIVE  ON ft Marianna Sangita: “Et Glimt” ON YOUTUBE     Risë Stevens: Bizet; Carmen “Card Scene” FROM ARCHIVE  Betty Lou Allen: J.S.C. Bach; Cassandra Cantata FROM ARCHIVE Fedora Barbieri: Verdi; Un Ballo in Maschera “Re dell’abisso” FROM ARCHIVE  Marisa Ferrer & Charles Cambon: Berlioz; Les Troyens "Reviens a toi, vierge adorée” FROM ARCHIVE  Anna Maria Alberghetti: “They didn’t believe me” FROM ARCHIVE  FILM Helen of Troy 1956 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049301/ Scream 2 1997 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120082/ The Matrix 1999 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/ The Eyes of Laura Mars 1978 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077530/ Doctor Sleep 2019 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5606664/ Nightmare Alley 2021 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7740496/ Agamemnon 1983 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UyouI7BUsI Promising Young Woman 2020 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9620292/ Kaos 2024 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8550732/ Don't Look Up 2021 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11286314/ ART Attic Red cup with the taking of Cassandra Terracotta amphora with the taking of Cassandra Evelyn de Morgan's Cassandra Pompeii mosaic of Ajax dragging Cassandra from Palladium. Solomon J. Solomon's Ajax & Cassandra Ronsard's "Avant le temps tes tempes fleuriront" Louise Bogan's "Cassandra" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/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, 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! 

… 

There is an elegant symmetry to Cassandra being misunderstood - still, millennia later - as a symbol for pessimism. A prophet of doom. But that wasn’t her curse at all. Her curse was to have true insight and yet be unable to get those around her to listen.

And is the reason we prioritise some voices over others not the central, existential question at a time when real knowledge struggles to make itself heard over a chorus of populism? What wooden horses have we let through our cities’ gates?


Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global


NOTES


MUSIC 

Oluf Dimitri Røe: “Fajum” ON YOUTUBE 

Aldo Ciccolini: Erik Satie “Gnossiennes No.1 FROM ARCHIVE

Lulu Belle: “Never take ‘no’ for an answer” FROM ARCHIVE 

ON ft Marianna Sangita: “Et Glimt” ON YOUTUBE    

Risë Stevens: Bizet; Carmen “Card Scene” FROM ARCHIVE 

Betty Lou Allen: J.S.C. Bach; Cassandra Cantata FROM ARCHIVE

Fedora Barbieri: Verdi; Un Ballo in Maschera “Re dell’abisso” FROM ARCHIVE 

Marisa Ferrer & Charles Cambon: Berlioz; Les Troyens "Reviens a toi, vierge adorée” FROM ARCHIVE 

Anna Maria Alberghetti: “They didn’t believe me” FROM ARCHIVE 


FILM

Helen of Troy 1956 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049301/

Scream 2 1997 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120082/

The Matrix 1999 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/

The Eyes of Laura Mars 1978 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077530/

Doctor Sleep 2019 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5606664/

Nightmare Alley 2021 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7740496/

Agamemnon 1983 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UyouI7BUsI

Promising Young Woman 2020 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9620292/

Kaos 2024 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8550732/

Don't Look Up 2021 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11286314/


ART

Attic Red cup with the taking of Cassandra

Terracotta amphora with the taking of Cassandra

Evelyn de Morgan's Cassandra

Pompeii mosaic of Ajax dragging Cassandra from Palladium.

Solomon J. Solomon's Ajax & Cassandra


Ronsard's "Avant le temps tes tempes fleuriront"

Louise Bogan's "Cassandra"

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]]> 3441 no BONUS - Archaeology: The Art of Interpreting Science https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey *** SUPPORT A SECOND SEASON ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** 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 is unearthed from below. _________________ 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, 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! _____________ Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Sat, 03 May 2025 02:45:00 -0000 BONUS - Archaeology: The Art of Interpreting Science bonus Alex Andreou Romantic notions of archaeology are in stark contrast with the painstaking reality *** SUPPORT A SECOND SEASON ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** 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 is unearthed from below. _________________ 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, 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! _____________ Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices *** SUPPORT A SECOND SEASON ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY ***


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 is unearthed from below.

_________________


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, 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!


_____________


Written and presented by Alex Andreou


Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global

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]]> 2562 no 5. Persephone Part II - You Do Something To Me https://feeds.megaphone.fm/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, 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!  …  Persephone has been assigned the story of a victim, but bears none of the hallmarks. Why has this magnificent Queen been reduced to a Page 3 girl? Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES Will be added in a few hours Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:35:00 -0000 5. Persephone II - You Do Something To Me full 1 5 Alex Andreou Second part of this most profound myth 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, 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!  …  Persephone has been assigned the story of a victim, but bears none of the hallmarks. Why has this magnificent Queen been reduced to a Page 3 girl? Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES Will be added in a few hours Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 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, 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! 


… 


Persephone has been assigned the story of a victim, but bears none of the hallmarks. Why has this magnificent Queen been reduced to a Page 3 girl?



Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global


NOTES

Will be added in a few hours

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]]> 4235 no 4. Persephone Part I - If You Can't Be Free, Be A Mystery https://feeds.megaphone.fm/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, 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!  …  Persephone has been assigned the story of a victim, but bears none of the hallmarks. Why has this magnificent Queen been reduced to a Page 3 girl? Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC  Podyssey Theme - “To Margoudi ki o Alexandris” Marianna Sangita - YOUTUBE. “Kori” (Acoustic) Marianna Sangita - YOUTUBE “Kori” (Album Version) ON - YOUTUBE Camille Saint-Saëns “Danse Macabre”, Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra - ARCHIVE  Claudio Monteverdi “Addio Roma” from L’Incoronazione di Poppea - ARCHIVE  Antonio Vivaldi “Autumn” from The four Seasons - ARCHIVE  Heitor Villa Lobos “Bachianas Brasileiras No.5”, Bidu Sayao - ARCHIVE  Giacomo Puccini “Flower Duet” from Madama Butterfly, Renata Tebaldi/Nell Ranking - ARCHIVE  Francesco Sacrati “E dove t’aggirli” from Proserpina, Victoria de los Angeles - YOUTUBE  “Sobbin’ Women” from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Howard Keel - ARCHIVE Francesco Cilea “Esser madre e un inferno” from L’Arlesiana, Ebe Stignani - ARCHIVE   “Am I blue” Ethel Waters - YOUTUBE Amilcare Ponchielli “Oh Madre Mia” Act I finale from La Gioconda, Maria Callas/Maria Amadini - ARCHIVE WA Mozart “Lacrimosa” from Requiem, Eugen Jochum - ARCHIVE  Kurt Weill “September Song”, Sarah Vaughan - ARCHIVE  FILM “The Goddess of Spring” (1934)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zvnAypUSJs Children of Men (2006)  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/  Lady Bird (2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4925292/  Terms of Endearment (1983)  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086425/  Steel Magnolias (1989)  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098384/  ARTWORK  Two examples of a Melian amphoras, with Kore figure, c. 6thC BCE here and here.   “Hades Abducting Persephone” fresco Vergina 4C BCE  “Statue of Isis-Persephone holding a sistrum” marble statue Gortyn 180-190 CE “Head of Persephone” earthenware Centuripae, c.420 BCE “Bronze statuette of a female votary with pomegranate” 4th–3rd century BCE “Persephone and Hades” red-figure kylix Vulci, c. 440-430 BCE “The abduction of Persephone by Hades” terracotta hydria c. 340–330 BCE “Persephone on the Throne” terracotta tablet Locri, 470 BCE “Enthroned Deity” (probably Persephone) Taranto, c. 480-470 BCE Bernini Gian Lorenzo “Rape of Proserpine”  Peter Paul Rubens “The Rape of Proserpine”  Luca Giordano “The Abduction of Proserpina”  Maxfield Parrish “Proserpina and the Sea Nymphs” Hiram Powers “Proserpine” Dante Gabriel Rossetti eighth and final version of “Proserpine” READING Taffy Brodesser-Akner “Let’s Go to Jerusalem for Soup Again”  Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, Marian Villancico  Edna St Vincent Millay “Prayer to Persephone” Rita Dove “Canary”   Rita Dove “The Bistro Styx” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:31:00 -0000 4. Persephone I - If You Can't Be Free, Be A Mystery full Alex Andreou Maiden, Consort, Mother, Stranger, Crone. 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, 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!  …  Persephone has been assigned the story of a victim, but bears none of the hallmarks. Why has this magnificent Queen been reduced to a Page 3 girl? Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC  Podyssey Theme - “To Margoudi ki o Alexandris” Marianna Sangita - YOUTUBE. “Kori” (Acoustic) Marianna Sangita - YOUTUBE “Kori” (Album Version) ON - YOUTUBE Camille Saint-Saëns “Danse Macabre”, Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra - ARCHIVE  Claudio Monteverdi “Addio Roma” from L’Incoronazione di Poppea - ARCHIVE  Antonio Vivaldi “Autumn” from The four Seasons - ARCHIVE  Heitor Villa Lobos “Bachianas Brasileiras No.5”, Bidu Sayao - ARCHIVE  Giacomo Puccini “Flower Duet” from Madama Butterfly, Renata Tebaldi/Nell Ranking - ARCHIVE  Francesco Sacrati “E dove t’aggirli” from Proserpina, Victoria de los Angeles - YOUTUBE  “Sobbin’ Women” from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Howard Keel - ARCHIVE Francesco Cilea “Esser madre e un inferno” from L’Arlesiana, Ebe Stignani - ARCHIVE   “Am I blue” Ethel Waters - YOUTUBE Amilcare Ponchielli “Oh Madre Mia” Act I finale from La Gioconda, Maria Callas/Maria Amadini - ARCHIVE WA Mozart “Lacrimosa” from Requiem, Eugen Jochum - ARCHIVE  Kurt Weill “September Song”, Sarah Vaughan - ARCHIVE  FILM “The Goddess of Spring” (1934)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zvnAypUSJs Children of Men (2006)  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/  Lady Bird (2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4925292/  Terms of Endearment (1983)  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086425/  Steel Magnolias (1989)  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098384/  ARTWORK  Two examples of a Melian amphoras, with Kore figure, c. 6thC BCE here and here.   “Hades Abducting Persephone” fresco Vergina 4C BCE  “Statue of Isis-Persephone holding a sistrum” marble statue Gortyn 180-190 CE “Head of Persephone” earthenware Centuripae, c.420 BCE “Bronze statuette of a female votary with pomegranate” 4th–3rd century BCE “Persephone and Hades” red-figure kylix Vulci, c. 440-430 BCE “The abduction of Persephone by Hades” terracotta hydria c. 340–330 BCE “Persephone on the Throne” terracotta tablet Locri, 470 BCE “Enthroned Deity” (probably Persephone) Taranto, c. 480-470 BCE Bernini Gian Lorenzo “Rape of Proserpine”  Peter Paul Rubens “The Rape of Proserpine”  Luca Giordano “The Abduction of Proserpina”  Maxfield Parrish “Proserpina and the Sea Nymphs” Hiram Powers “Proserpine” Dante Gabriel Rossetti eighth and final version of “Proserpine” READING Taffy Brodesser-Akner “Let’s Go to Jerusalem for Soup Again”  Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, Marian Villancico  Edna St Vincent Millay “Prayer to Persephone” Rita Dove “Canary”   Rita Dove “The Bistro Styx” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 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, 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! 


… 


Persephone has been assigned the story of a victim, but bears none of the hallmarks. Why has this magnificent Queen been reduced to a Page 3 girl?



Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global


NOTES


MUSIC 

Podyssey Theme - “To Margoudi ki o Alexandris” Marianna Sangita - YOUTUBE.

“Kori” (Acoustic) Marianna Sangita - YOUTUBE

“Kori” (Album Version) ON - YOUTUBE

Camille Saint-Saëns “Danse Macabre”, Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra - ARCHIVE 

Claudio Monteverdi “Addio Roma” from L’Incoronazione di Poppea - ARCHIVE 

Antonio Vivaldi “Autumn” from The four Seasons - ARCHIVE 

Heitor Villa Lobos “Bachianas Brasileiras No.5”, Bidu Sayao - ARCHIVE 

Giacomo Puccini “Flower Duet” from Madama Butterfly, Renata Tebaldi/Nell Ranking - ARCHIVE 

Francesco Sacrati “E dove t’aggirli” from Proserpina, Victoria de los Angeles - YOUTUBE 

“Sobbin’ Women” from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Howard Keel - ARCHIVE

Francesco Cilea “Esser madre e un inferno” from L’Arlesiana, Ebe Stignani - ARCHIVE  

“Am I blue” Ethel Waters - YOUTUBE

Amilcare Ponchielli “Oh Madre Mia” Act I finale from La Gioconda, Maria Callas/Maria Amadini - ARCHIVE

WA Mozart “Lacrimosa” from Requiem, Eugen Jochum - ARCHIVE 

Kurt Weill “September Song”, Sarah Vaughan - ARCHIVE 


FILM

“The Goddess of Spring” (1934) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zvnAypUSJs

Children of Men (2006) 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/ 

Lady Bird (2017)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4925292/ 

Terms of Endearment (1983) 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086425/ 

Steel Magnolias (1989) 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098384/ 


ARTWORK 

Two examples of a Melian amphoras, with Kore figure, c. 6thC BCE here and here.  

“Hades Abducting Persephone” fresco Vergina 4C BCE 

“Statue of Isis-Persephone holding a sistrum” marble statue Gortyn 180-190 CE

“Head of Persephone” earthenware Centuripae, c.420 BCE

“Bronze statuette of a female votary with pomegranate” 4th–3rd century BCE

“Persephone and Hades” red-figure kylix Vulci, c. 440-430 BCE

“The abduction of Persephone by Hades” terracotta hydria c. 340–330 BCE

“Persephone on the Throne” terracotta tablet Locri, 470 BCE

“Enthroned Deity” (probably Persephone) Taranto, c. 480-470 BCE

Bernini Gian Lorenzo “Rape of Proserpine” 

Peter Paul Rubens “The Rape of Proserpine” 

Luca Giordano “The Abduction of Proserpina” 

Maxfield Parrish “Proserpina and the Sea Nymphs”

Hiram Powers “Proserpine”

Dante Gabriel Rossetti eighth and final version of “Proserpine”


READING

Taffy Brodesser-Akner “Let’s Go to Jerusalem for Soup Again” 

Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, Marian Villancico 

Edna St Vincent Millay “Prayer to Persephone”

Rita Dove “Canary”  

Rita Dove “The Bistro Styx”

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]]> 5539 no 3b. BONUS - The Making of Podyssey https://feeds.megaphone.fm/quietriot 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. …  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, 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!  …  Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:31:00 -0000 BONUS - The Making of Podyssey bonus Alex Andreou Naomi Smith with exclusive access 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. …  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, 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!  …  Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 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.

… 


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, 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! 


… 



Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global

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]]> 2560 yes 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, 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! … This week we meet the creator of the theme tune and much of the music on Podyssey - Musician Marianna Sangita. WATCH THIS INTERVIEW ON YOUTUBE https://youtu.be/A-xAKBPuSaQ SUBSCRIBE TO PODYSSEY ON YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo7dIXWHNar1u1rKsXUTgYnDhJebTp-eo FULL VIDEO OF PODYSSEY THEME (To Margoudi ki O Alexandris) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-LAVj5l9Uc MARIANNA SANGITA'S FULL MUSIC: https://www.mariannasangita.com/ ADDITIONAL TRACKS GLAROS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIGrYHF7jLA ON's KORI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zegho00jHVc&list=OLAK5uy_nv3aKiRBefjqqnpo05P__0py_gwnIdDsw&index=4 Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:29:00 -0000 bonus Alex Andreou 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, 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! … This week we meet the creator of the theme tune and much of the music on Podyssey - Musician Marianna Sangita. WATCH THIS INTERVIEW ON YOUTUBE https://youtu.be/A-xAKBPuSaQ SUBSCRIBE TO PODYSSEY ON YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo7dIXWHNar1u1rKsXUTgYnDhJebTp-eo FULL VIDEO OF PODYSSEY THEME (To Margoudi ki O Alexandris) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-LAVj5l9Uc MARIANNA SANGITA'S FULL MUSIC: https://www.mariannasangita.com/ ADDITIONAL TRACKS GLAROS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIGrYHF7jLA ON's KORI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zegho00jHVc&list=OLAK5uy_nv3aKiRBefjqqnpo05P__0py_gwnIdDsw&index=4 Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 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, 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!


…


This week we meet the creator of the theme tune and much of the music on Podyssey - Musician Marianna Sangita.


WATCH THIS INTERVIEW ON YOUTUBE

https://youtu.be/A-xAKBPuSaQ


SUBSCRIBE TO PODYSSEY ON YOUTUBE

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo7dIXWHNar1u1rKsXUTgYnDhJebTp-eo


FULL VIDEO OF PODYSSEY THEME (To Margoudi ki O Alexandris)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-LAVj5l9Uc


MARIANNA SANGITA'S FULL MUSIC:

https://www.mariannasangita.com/


ADDITIONAL TRACKS

GLAROS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIGrYHF7jLA

ON's KORI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zegho00jHVc&list=OLAK5uy_nv3aKiRBefjqqnpo05P__0py_gwnIdDsw&index=4



Written and presented by Alex Andreou


Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global

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]]> 1019 no 3. King Midas - All That Glitters https://feeds.megaphone.fm/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, 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!  …  When was it - and why? - that the cautionary tale of King Midas, a myth about the absurdity of excess, the consequences of greed and spectacularly bad judgment, magically transformed into an aspirational example of success? When did we elevate him from lowly figure of fun to a gold penthouse and the Oval Office? Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC  MOZART - A Musical Joke - Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet - PRIVATE COLLECTION  GRIEG - Peer Gynt Suite No.1 “In the Hall of the Mountain King” - Eugene Ormandy - PRIVATE COLLECTION  BERLIN - After you get what you want you don’t want it - Marilyn Monroe - YOUTUBE  ROSSINI - Il Barbiere di Siviglia “Largo al factotum” - Rolando Panerai - YOUTUBE   BORODIN/WRIGHT - Kismet “Baubles, Bangles, and Beeds” - Ann Blyth - PRIVATE COLLECTION  BERLIN - Call Me Madam “The Money Song” - Dinah Shore - YOUTUBE  MENOTTI - Amahl And The Night Visitors “All that gold” - Rosemary Kuhlmann - PRIVATE COLLECTION STRAUSS - Die Liebe der Danae - 1952 Broadcast - PRIVATE COLLECTION   PUCCINI - Manon Lescaut “In quelle trine” - Renata Tebaldi - PRIVATE COLLECTION  BERNSTEIN - Candide “Glitter and be gay” - Roberta Peters - YOUTUBE  BACH - "Geschwinde, Geschwinde, Ihr Wirbelnden Winde", BWV 201 - PRIVATE COLLECTION  GOUNOD - Faust “Le veau d’or” - Nicolai Ghiaurov - Public Television - YOUTUBE  All that glitters is not gold - Mildred Bailey - YOUTUBE  FILM Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1672218/  Wall Street (1987) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094291/   The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993846/    Goodfellas (1990) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685/    Scarface (1983) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086250/   Big (1988) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094737/   Trading Places (1983) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086465/  Limitless (2011) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219289/  Avengers: Infinity War (2018) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154756/   Goldfinger (1964) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058150/  ARTWORK  Silenus riding a donkey  The Judgment of Midas by Nicolas Mignard, 1667.  King Midas Judging the Musical Contest between Apollo and Pan, by Filippo Lauri, c1650-1694  LIFE magazine Goldfinger cover.  Images of Ancient Gordion  Midas Gate in Anatolia  Map of Ancient Anatolia  Electrum coins  Gold Croeseid  Andy Warhol - Dollar Signs  “Siren” by Marc Quinn (2008)  “America” by Maurizio Cattelan (2016)  “Madonna and child” by Sandro Boticelli (1480-81) “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” by Gustav Klimt (1907)  Ceiling Paintings by Gustav Klimt (1894)  Gold Death Mask (Tomb V, Mycenae)  Meowdas (fortnite)  READING Proust “Mensonges” dedication  “King Midas” by Howard Moss  “Mrs. Midas” by Carol Ann Duffy  Essay on Gold and Melancholy  John Lyly’s "King Midas"   “The Reading Mother” by Strickland Gillilan  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:29:00 -0000 3. King Midas - All that glitters full Alex Andreou When did we elevate this figure of fun to a penthouse? 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, 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!  …  When was it - and why? - that the cautionary tale of King Midas, a myth about the absurdity of excess, the consequences of greed and spectacularly bad judgment, magically transformed into an aspirational example of success? When did we elevate him from lowly figure of fun to a gold penthouse and the Oval Office? Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC  MOZART - A Musical Joke - Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet - PRIVATE COLLECTION  GRIEG - Peer Gynt Suite No.1 “In the Hall of the Mountain King” - Eugene Ormandy - PRIVATE COLLECTION  BERLIN - After you get what you want you don’t want it - Marilyn Monroe - YOUTUBE  ROSSINI - Il Barbiere di Siviglia “Largo al factotum” - Rolando Panerai - YOUTUBE   BORODIN/WRIGHT - Kismet “Baubles, Bangles, and Beeds” - Ann Blyth - PRIVATE COLLECTION  BERLIN - Call Me Madam “The Money Song” - Dinah Shore - YOUTUBE  MENOTTI - Amahl And The Night Visitors “All that gold” - Rosemary Kuhlmann - PRIVATE COLLECTION STRAUSS - Die Liebe der Danae - 1952 Broadcast - PRIVATE COLLECTION   PUCCINI - Manon Lescaut “In quelle trine” - Renata Tebaldi - PRIVATE COLLECTION  BERNSTEIN - Candide “Glitter and be gay” - Roberta Peters - YOUTUBE  BACH - "Geschwinde, Geschwinde, Ihr Wirbelnden Winde", BWV 201 - PRIVATE COLLECTION  GOUNOD - Faust “Le veau d’or” - Nicolai Ghiaurov - Public Television - YOUTUBE  All that glitters is not gold - Mildred Bailey - YOUTUBE  FILM Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1672218/  Wall Street (1987) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094291/   The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993846/    Goodfellas (1990) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685/    Scarface (1983) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086250/   Big (1988) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094737/   Trading Places (1983) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086465/  Limitless (2011) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219289/  Avengers: Infinity War (2018) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154756/   Goldfinger (1964) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058150/  ARTWORK  Silenus riding a donkey  The Judgment of Midas by Nicolas Mignard, 1667.  King Midas Judging the Musical Contest between Apollo and Pan, by Filippo Lauri, c1650-1694  LIFE magazine Goldfinger cover.  Images of Ancient Gordion  Midas Gate in Anatolia  Map of Ancient Anatolia  Electrum coins  Gold Croeseid  Andy Warhol - Dollar Signs  “Siren” by Marc Quinn (2008)  “America” by Maurizio Cattelan (2016)  “Madonna and child” by Sandro Boticelli (1480-81) “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” by Gustav Klimt (1907)  Ceiling Paintings by Gustav Klimt (1894)  Gold Death Mask (Tomb V, Mycenae)  Meowdas (fortnite)  READING Proust “Mensonges” dedication  “King Midas” by Howard Moss  “Mrs. Midas” by Carol Ann Duffy  Essay on Gold and Melancholy  John Lyly’s "King Midas"   “The Reading Mother” by Strickland Gillilan  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 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, 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! 


… 


When was it - and why? - that the cautionary tale of King Midas, a myth about the absurdity of excess, the consequences of greed and spectacularly bad judgment, magically transformed into an aspirational example of success? When did we elevate him from lowly figure of fun to a gold penthouse and the Oval Office?



Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global


NOTES

MUSIC 


MOZART - A Musical Joke - Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet - PRIVATE COLLECTION 


GRIEG - Peer Gynt Suite No.1 “In the Hall of the Mountain King” - Eugene Ormandy - PRIVATE COLLECTION 


BERLIN - After you get what you want you don’t want it - Marilyn Monroe - YOUTUBE 


ROSSINI - Il Barbiere di Siviglia “Largo al factotum” - Rolando Panerai - YOUTUBE  


BORODIN/WRIGHT - Kismet “Baubles, Bangles, and Beeds” - Ann Blyth - PRIVATE COLLECTION 


BERLIN - Call Me Madam “The Money Song” - Dinah Shore - YOUTUBE 


MENOTTI - Amahl And The Night Visitors “All that gold” - Rosemary Kuhlmann - PRIVATE COLLECTION


STRAUSS - Die Liebe der Danae - 1952 Broadcast - PRIVATE COLLECTION  


PUCCINI - Manon Lescaut “In quelle trine” - Renata Tebaldi - PRIVATE COLLECTION 


BERNSTEIN - Candide “Glitter and be gay” - Roberta Peters - YOUTUBE 


BACH - "Geschwinde, Geschwinde, Ihr Wirbelnden Winde", BWV 201 - PRIVATE COLLECTION 


GOUNOD - Faust “Le veau d’or” - Nicolai Ghiaurov - Public Television - YOUTUBE 


All that glitters is not gold - Mildred Bailey - YOUTUBE 



FILM


Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1672218/ 


Wall Street (1987) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094291/  


The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993846/   


Goodfellas (1990) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685/   


Scarface (1983) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086250/  


Big (1988) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094737/  


Trading Places (1983) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086465/ 


Limitless (2011) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219289/ 


Avengers: Infinity War (2018) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154756/  


Goldfinger (1964) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058150/ 



ARTWORK 


Silenus riding a donkey 


The Judgment of Midas by Nicolas Mignard, 1667. 


King Midas Judging the Musical Contest between Apollo and Pan, by Filippo Lauri, c1650-1694 


LIFE magazine Goldfinger cover. 


Images of Ancient Gordion 


Midas Gate in Anatolia 


Map of Ancient Anatolia 


Electrum coins 


Gold Croeseid 


Andy Warhol - Dollar Signs 


“Siren” by Marc Quinn (2008) 


“America” by Maurizio Cattelan (2016) 


“Madonna and child” by Sandro Boticelli (1480-81)


“Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” by Gustav Klimt (1907) 


Ceiling Paintings by Gustav Klimt (1894) 


Gold Death Mask (Tomb V, Mycenae) 


Meowdas (fortnite) 



READING


Proust “Mensonges” dedication 


“King Midas” by Howard Moss 


“Mrs. Midas” by Carol Ann Duffy 


Essay on Gold and Melancholy 


John Lyly’s "King Midas"  


“The Reading Mother” by Strickland Gillilan 

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]]> 5334 no 2. Orpheus - Epic Hero or Drama Queen? https://feeds.megaphone.fm/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, 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!  …  Orpheus and his lyre. Orpheus and Euridice. Orpheus and the Argonauts. Orpheus in the Underworld. Orpheus and his lament. Orpheus and his pain. Orpheus, Orpheus, Orpheus. The quintessential suffering artist. The shining example of love’s triumph over even death.  Or maybe just a performative, entitled, 'singer-songwriter' nepo-baby . Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC  Roy Henderson - Orpheus with his lute - PRIVATE COLLECTION  Reinhold Glière - Harp Concerto In B Flat Major, Op. 4, Larghetto - on YOUTUBE    Salli Terri & Laurindo Almeida - Black is the color - on SPOTIFY  Oluf Dimitri Røe - Sabouna of Mykonos - on SPOTIFY  Elena Polonska - Ciaccona - on YOUTUBE  Monteverdi - L’Orfeo “Tu sei morta” Enrico de Franceschi (Orfeo) - PRIVATE COLLECTION  Glück - Orfeo e Euridice “Ché faró senza Euridice” Nan Merriman (Orfeo) - Telephone Hour TV ARCHIVE  Pedro Infante - Soy Infeliz - on SPOTIFY  Marianna Sangita & Oluf Dimitri Røe - Lafina (The Doe) - on SPOTIFY Korngold - Die Tote Stadt “Glück das mir verblieb” Ilona Steingruber & Anton Dermota - on YOUTUBE Billie Holiday - “I’ll be seeing you” - on SPOTIFY FILM Coco (2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2380307/   Orphée (1950) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041719/  Orfeu Negru (1959) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/   Inception (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/   The English Patient (1996) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116209/   Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101452/   Chinatown (1974) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071315/  Apocalypse Now (1979) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/  Contact (1997) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/  What Dreams May Come (1998) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120889/  Pet Sematary (2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0837563/  Weekend at Bernie’s (1989) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098627/  Death becomes her (1992) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104070/  Vertigo (1958) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/  Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8613070/  Fitzcarraldo (1982) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083946/  ARTWORK  Orpheus embracing his lyre by Unknown  Red figure vase depicting the head of Orpheus by Unknown here and here. More about red-figure pottery  Examples of Orpheus charming the animals here, here, here, here, here, and here. An example of Orphic Christ “Nymphs finding the head of Orpheus” by Waterhouse  “Thracian Girl carrying the Head of Orpheus on his Lyre” by Moreau “Euridice dying” by Lebœf “Orpheus leading Euridice from the Underworld” by Cortot  Vergil’s version of the Orpheus myth  More about the Derveni Papyrus  Reiner Maria Rilke’s “Sonnets to Orpheus” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:28:00 -0000 2. Orpheus - Epic Hero or Drama Queen? full Alex Andreou The quintessential suffering artist. Or maybe just a performative, entitled, 'singer-songwriter' nepo-baby . 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, 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!  …  Orpheus and his lyre. Orpheus and Euridice. Orpheus and the Argonauts. Orpheus in the Underworld. Orpheus and his lament. Orpheus and his pain. Orpheus, Orpheus, Orpheus. The quintessential suffering artist. The shining example of love’s triumph over even death.  Or maybe just a performative, entitled, 'singer-songwriter' nepo-baby . Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC  Roy Henderson - Orpheus with his lute - PRIVATE COLLECTION  Reinhold Glière - Harp Concerto In B Flat Major, Op. 4, Larghetto - on YOUTUBE    Salli Terri & Laurindo Almeida - Black is the color - on SPOTIFY  Oluf Dimitri Røe - Sabouna of Mykonos - on SPOTIFY  Elena Polonska - Ciaccona - on YOUTUBE  Monteverdi - L’Orfeo “Tu sei morta” Enrico de Franceschi (Orfeo) - PRIVATE COLLECTION  Glück - Orfeo e Euridice “Ché faró senza Euridice” Nan Merriman (Orfeo) - Telephone Hour TV ARCHIVE  Pedro Infante - Soy Infeliz - on SPOTIFY  Marianna Sangita & Oluf Dimitri Røe - Lafina (The Doe) - on SPOTIFY Korngold - Die Tote Stadt “Glück das mir verblieb” Ilona Steingruber & Anton Dermota - on YOUTUBE Billie Holiday - “I’ll be seeing you” - on SPOTIFY FILM Coco (2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2380307/   Orphée (1950) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041719/  Orfeu Negru (1959) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/   Inception (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/   The English Patient (1996) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116209/   Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101452/   Chinatown (1974) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071315/  Apocalypse Now (1979) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/  Contact (1997) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/  What Dreams May Come (1998) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120889/  Pet Sematary (2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0837563/  Weekend at Bernie’s (1989) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098627/  Death becomes her (1992) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104070/  Vertigo (1958) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/  Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8613070/  Fitzcarraldo (1982) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083946/  ARTWORK  Orpheus embracing his lyre by Unknown  Red figure vase depicting the head of Orpheus by Unknown here and here. More about red-figure pottery  Examples of Orpheus charming the animals here, here, here, here, here, and here. An example of Orphic Christ “Nymphs finding the head of Orpheus” by Waterhouse  “Thracian Girl carrying the Head of Orpheus on his Lyre” by Moreau “Euridice dying” by Lebœf “Orpheus leading Euridice from the Underworld” by Cortot  Vergil’s version of the Orpheus myth  More about the Derveni Papyrus  Reiner Maria Rilke’s “Sonnets to Orpheus” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 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, 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! 


… 


Orpheus and his lyre. Orpheus and Euridice. Orpheus and the Argonauts. Orpheus in the Underworld. Orpheus and his lament. Orpheus and his pain. Orpheus, Orpheus, Orpheus. The quintessential suffering artist. The shining example of love’s triumph over even death. 


Or maybe just a performative, entitled, 'singer-songwriter' nepo-baby .



Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global


NOTES


MUSIC 


Roy Henderson - Orpheus with his lute - PRIVATE COLLECTION 


Reinhold Glière - Harp Concerto In B Flat Major, Op. 4, Larghetto - on YOUTUBE 

 

Salli Terri & Laurindo Almeida - Black is the color - on SPOTIFY 


Oluf Dimitri Røe - Sabouna of Mykonos - on SPOTIFY 


Elena Polonska - Ciaccona - on YOUTUBE 


Monteverdi - L’Orfeo “Tu sei morta” Enrico de Franceschi (Orfeo) - PRIVATE COLLECTION 


Glück - Orfeo e Euridice “Ché faró senza Euridice” Nan Merriman (Orfeo) - Telephone Hour TV ARCHIVE 


Pedro Infante - Soy Infeliz - on SPOTIFY 


Marianna Sangita & Oluf Dimitri Røe - Lafina (The Doe) - on SPOTIFY


Korngold - Die Tote Stadt “Glück das mir verblieb” Ilona Steingruber & Anton Dermota - on YOUTUBE


Billie Holiday - “I’ll be seeing you” - on SPOTIFY



FILM


Coco (2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2380307/  


Orphée (1950) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041719/ 


Orfeu Negru (1959) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/  


Inception (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/  


The English Patient (1996) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116209/  


Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101452/  


Chinatown (1974) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071315/ 


Apocalypse Now (1979) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/ 


Contact (1997) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/ 


What Dreams May Come (1998) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120889/ 


Pet Sematary (2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0837563/ 


Weekend at Bernie’s (1989) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098627/ 


Death becomes her (1992) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104070/ 


Vertigo (1958) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/ 


Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8613070/ 


Fitzcarraldo (1982) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083946/ 



ARTWORK 


Orpheus embracing his lyre by Unknown 


Red figure vase depicting the head of Orpheus by Unknown here and here.


More about red-figure pottery 


Examples of Orpheus charming the animals here, here, here, here, here, and here.


An example of Orphic Christ


“Nymphs finding the head of Orpheus” by Waterhouse 


“Thracian Girl carrying the Head of Orpheus on his Lyre” by Moreau


“Euridice dying” by Lebœf


“Orpheus leading Euridice from the Underworld” by Cortot 


Vergil’s version of the Orpheus myth 


More about the Derveni Papyrus 


Reiner Maria Rilke’s “Sonnets to Orpheus”

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]]> 4439 no 1. Narcissus & Echo - The Influencer & The Follower https://feeds.megaphone.fm/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, 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!  …  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.  Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith and Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC  Carly Simon - “You’re so vain” - LIVE on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZmCJUSC6g  Marianna Sangita - “Glaros” - LIVE on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIGrYHF7jLA  The Clerks of Christ Church - “Slow, slow fresh fount” - on SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/track/61kkAfQYSZQIhw46FDLe49  Joan Sutherland - Gounod FAUST “Jewel Song” - on SPOTIFY  https://open.spotify.com/track/348lGUh1TA8t0T2Kpe0Qkm  Maria Callas - Meyerbeer DINORAH “Shadow Song” - on SPOTIFY  https://open.spotify.com/track/1QhZtlXHBuFUwn4splxosj  Joni Mitchell - “Both sides now” - on SPOTIFY  https://open.spotify.com/track/1pjATX7sbd6Y4jMVqIvzHk  Clara Rockmore - Saint-Saëns “The Swan” - LIVE on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdFSU8sn3mo  Róisín Murphy - “Narcissus” - OFFICIAL on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88p6AwgZNaw  Ann Blyth & Lorenzo Lamas - Friml ROSE-MARIE “Indian Love Call” - on SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/track/3Fd9Ti1AFjvEyK67Sv8U7Y  FILM The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134119/  Snow White (1937) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029583/  All About Eve (1950) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/  The Shape of Water (2017)  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5580390/  The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037988/  Black Swan (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0947798/  Ingrid Goes West (2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5962210/  ARTWORK  “Narcissus” by Caravaggio https://www.caravaggio.org/narcissus.jsp  “Metamorphosis of Narcissus” by Salvador Dalí https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dali-metamorphosis-of-narcissus-t02343  “The Nymph Echo” by Max Ernst https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79316  Narcissus Fresco in Pompeii by Anon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_%28mythology%29#/media/File:Narcissus_on_a_Pompeian_fresco.jpg  “Echo and Narcissus” by John William Waterhouse https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/echo-and-narcissus  “Narcissus” by Follower of Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/follower-of-giovanni-antonio-boltraffio-narcissus  "Mr. O'Wilde, You are not the first one that has grasped at a Shadow" by Thomas Nast   https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/820022  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:27:00 -0000 1. Narcissus & Echo - The Influencer & The Follower full 1 1 Alex Andreou Through a glass, darkly. 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, 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!  …  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.  Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith and Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC  Carly Simon - “You’re so vain” - LIVE on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZmCJUSC6g  Marianna Sangita - “Glaros” - LIVE on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIGrYHF7jLA  The Clerks of Christ Church - “Slow, slow fresh fount” - on SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/track/61kkAfQYSZQIhw46FDLe49  Joan Sutherland - Gounod FAUST “Jewel Song” - on SPOTIFY  https://open.spotify.com/track/348lGUh1TA8t0T2Kpe0Qkm  Maria Callas - Meyerbeer DINORAH “Shadow Song” - on SPOTIFY  https://open.spotify.com/track/1QhZtlXHBuFUwn4splxosj  Joni Mitchell - “Both sides now” - on SPOTIFY  https://open.spotify.com/track/1pjATX7sbd6Y4jMVqIvzHk  Clara Rockmore - Saint-Saëns “The Swan” - LIVE on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdFSU8sn3mo  Róisín Murphy - “Narcissus” - OFFICIAL on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88p6AwgZNaw  Ann Blyth & Lorenzo Lamas - Friml ROSE-MARIE “Indian Love Call” - on SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/track/3Fd9Ti1AFjvEyK67Sv8U7Y  FILM The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134119/  Snow White (1937) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029583/  All About Eve (1950) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/  The Shape of Water (2017)  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5580390/  The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037988/  Black Swan (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0947798/  Ingrid Goes West (2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5962210/  ARTWORK  “Narcissus” by Caravaggio https://www.caravaggio.org/narcissus.jsp  “Metamorphosis of Narcissus” by Salvador Dalí https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dali-metamorphosis-of-narcissus-t02343  “The Nymph Echo” by Max Ernst https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79316  Narcissus Fresco in Pompeii by Anon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_%28mythology%29#/media/File:Narcissus_on_a_Pompeian_fresco.jpg  “Echo and Narcissus” by John William Waterhouse https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/echo-and-narcissus  “Narcissus” by Follower of Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/follower-of-giovanni-antonio-boltraffio-narcissus  "Mr. O'Wilde, You are not the first one that has grasped at a Shadow" by Thomas Nast   https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/820022  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 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, 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! 


… 


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. 


Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Exec. Producers Naomi Smith and Kenny Campbell

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global


NOTES


MUSIC 


Carly Simon - “You’re so vain” - LIVE on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZmCJUSC6g 


Marianna Sangita - “Glaros” - LIVE on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIGrYHF7jLA 


The Clerks of Christ Church - “Slow, slow fresh fount” - on SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/track/61kkAfQYSZQIhw46FDLe49 


Joan Sutherland - Gounod FAUST “Jewel Song” - on SPOTIFY 

https://open.spotify.com/track/348lGUh1TA8t0T2Kpe0Qkm 


Maria Callas - Meyerbeer DINORAH “Shadow Song” - on SPOTIFY 

https://open.spotify.com/track/1QhZtlXHBuFUwn4splxosj 


Joni Mitchell - “Both sides now” - on SPOTIFY 

https://open.spotify.com/track/1pjATX7sbd6Y4jMVqIvzHk 


Clara Rockmore - Saint-Saëns “The Swan” - LIVE on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdFSU8sn3mo 


Róisín Murphy - “Narcissus” - OFFICIAL on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88p6AwgZNaw 


Ann Blyth & Lorenzo Lamas - Friml ROSE-MARIE “Indian Love Call” - on SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/track/3Fd9Ti1AFjvEyK67Sv8U7Y 




FILM


The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134119/ 


Snow White (1937) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029583/ 


All About Eve (1950) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/ 


The Shape of Water (2017)  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5580390/ 


The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037988/ 


Black Swan (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0947798/ 


Ingrid Goes West (2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5962210/ 



ARTWORK 


“Narcissus” by Caravaggio https://www.caravaggio.org/narcissus.jsp 


“Metamorphosis of Narcissus” by Salvador Dalí https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dali-metamorphosis-of-narcissus-t02343 


“The Nymph Echo” by Max Ernst https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79316 


Narcissus Fresco in Pompeii by Anon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_%28mythology%29#/media/File:Narcissus_on_a_Pompeian_fresco.jpg 


“Echo and Narcissus” by John William Waterhouse https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/echo-and-narcissus 


“Narcissus” by Follower of Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/follower-of-giovanni-antonio-boltraffio-narcissus 


"Mr. O'Wilde, You are not the first one that has grasped at a Shadow" by Thomas Nast 

 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/820022 


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