Part 3 of of Underworld themed episodes! Hades is one of the best games of the decade so far, but is a game based on Greek Mythology accurate? Did Supergiant really do their homework? Today we're looking at the many layers of the Hades video game!

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The Oresteia on audible

Also available on BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03pd7kv
The episode of In Our Time which discusses the Oresteia: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9fk

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Zagreus

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Orphic-religion 

https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aeschylus-attributed_fragments/2009/pb_LCL505.237.xml 

https://poets.org/poem/iliad-book-i-lines-1-15 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpLDi4_dRL8 

The Iliad/ The Odyssey- Emily Wilson translations

Greek Myths That Shape the Way We Think- Richard Buxton