Greek Mythology: Secrets of Olympus

A curved grey sickle passes hand to hand in the dark beneath the earth, and from what follows, something the world has never seen steps out of the salt water. Tonight the question is why the most beautiful goddess in Greek myth is born from the most violent act in it. The story comes from Hesiod's Theogony, the oldest surviving account of the Greek gods, where the wound and the wonder are not separated but made into a single chain. The record is stranger and more honest than the familiar painting of a goddess rising from calm foam would have you think.This is one story of the whole of Greek mythology, told one night at a time, true to the poets who kept it, in fresh words each episode.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae2a0654288e950ed44038f© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected] episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.

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Five lights move through the night sky above the Aegean, slow and steady, crossing the fixed stars in paths any shepherd can track. Tonight the question is how those five nameless wanderers became Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus and Mercury, and how those names reached every language on earth without a single break. The story comes from Hesiod, Plato, Diodorus Siculus and Hyginus, and what stood in the way was two thousand years of empire, translation and forgetting. The record turns out to be stranger than the familiar picture suggests, because the divine names came later than most people think.This is one story of the whole of Greek mythology, told one night at a time, true to the poets who kept it, in fresh words each episode.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae2a0654288e950ed44038f© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected] episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.

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Before the first god, before the sky and the earth had names, there is only an opening in nothing. Tonight the question is what was there before the gods, and how does anything come from a void that holds nothing at all. The story comes from Hesiod's Theogony, a poem of around a thousand lines composed in Boeotia near seven hundred BCE, where the first beings arise not from battle or decree but from the gap itself. The record turns out to be stranger and more patient than the word chaos has led most people to expect.This is one story of the whole of Greek mythology, told one night at a time, true to the poets who kept it, in fresh words each episode.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae2a0654288e950ed44038f© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected] episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.

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Five lights move slowly across the Mediterranean night, behaving unlike every fixed star around them. Tonight the question is how those wandering lights ended up carrying the names of Greek gods, names that have crossed more than two thousand years without a single change. The story comes from Aristotle's De Caelo and Pliny's Natural History, two ancient authorities who agreed on the names and disagreed on the reason for them. The record turns out to be stranger and more practical than the usual picture of Roman poets handing down divine labels from on high.This is one story of the whole of Greek mythology, told one night at a time, true to the poets and scholars who kept it.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae2a0654288e950ed44038f© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected] episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.

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Five lights move across the night sky tonight, refusing to twinkle, drifting slowly against the fixed stars week by week. Tonight the question is how those five wandering lights came to carry the names of five Olympian gods. The story comes from Hesiod's Theogony, Homer's Iliad, the Homeric Hymns and Diodorus Siculus, and the obstacle is the assumption that the Greeks began from nothing when they looked up. The record turns out to be stranger and more deliberate than the familiar picture of poets simply seeing gods in the sky.This is one story of the whole of Greek mythology, told one night at a time, true to the poets who kept it, in fresh words each episode.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae2a0654288e950ed44038f© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected] episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.

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A man raises a bag at a wedding feast and every guest in the hall becomes stone. Tonight the story behind that moment is the question: what does it cost a mortal to kill something that cannot be faced directly? The account comes from Apollodorus and Ovid, and what stands in the way of Perseus is not only Medusa but the plain fact that her gaze kills anything that meets it. The record turns out to be stranger and more disciplined than the familiar image of a hero and a monster suggests.This is one story of the whole of Greek mythology, told one night at a time, true to the poets who kept it, in fresh words each episode.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae2a0654288e950ed44038f© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected] episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.

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A king on a rocky Aegean island sets a feast and names his price, sending a young man toward the one creature whose gaze turns the living to stone. Tonight the question is how a mortal with no weapon of his own kills something that cannot be faced. The story comes from Apollodorus and from Hesiod, and what stands in Perseus's way is not only a monster but a journey through creatures who have no reason to help him. The record is stranger than the common picture allows, and the detail that changes everything is the one most retellings quietly leave out.This is one story of the whole of Greek mythology, told one night at a time, true to the poets who kept it, in fresh words each episode.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae2a0654288e950ed44038f© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected] episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.

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A large sealed jar stands in the corner of a dim room, already there before anyone thought to ask whose it was. Tonight the question is what the one thing was that did not escape when Pandora opened the jar. The story comes from Hesiod's Works and Days, where the weight of divine design stands in the way of every mortal who inherited its consequences. The record is stranger than the familiar picture suggests, and the jar itself may not belong to the person everyone assumes carried it.This is one story of the whole of Greek mythology, told one night at a time, true to the poets who kept it, in fresh words each episode.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae2a0654288e950ed44038f© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected] episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.

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A man walks away from the bright peak of Olympus carrying a plant stalk no larger than a walking stick, and inside it a coal smolders. Tonight the question is what it truly costs to give humanity the one thing a god decided to keep. The story comes from Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days, and what stands in the way is the full and deliberate fury of the king of the gods. The record turns out to be stranger and more human than the familiar picture suggests.This is one story of the whole of Greek mythology, told one night at a time, true to the poets who kept it, in fresh words each episode.Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA.Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: https://obomedia.com/en/gratis?ref=desc-6ae2a0654288e950ed44038f© 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network. All rights reserved.This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the property of their respective creator, who is solely responsible for them, and are distributed by the OBOMEDIA Network on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without the creator's prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected] episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.

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