Greek mythology is strange stuff. No less so in the works of Homer, but much of it is inaccessible because it's written in Greek after all! But you may still be curious about the Trojan War, the Iliad, the Odyssey and Homer and all the strange doings and characters therein - Achilles, Cassandra, Penelope, Ajax, Diomedes, Odysseus, Thetis, Eris, Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, just to name a few?

In these podcasts, you’ll hear the Homeric cycle in a generally linear, episodic but decidedly non-academic and at times rather breezy version of Homer’s epic saga, as if MC were a rhapsode narrating it to you around a campfire?

At any rate, Episode 1 tells of the strange goings on before the Trojan War: the Golden Apple of Discord, the Judgment of Paris, Helen of Sparta, and the enlistment of Odysseus and Achilles into the Greek forces to lay seige to Troy and reclaim the honor of the wronged brother and Greek chieftain, Menelaus. Enjoy and embrace the epic strangeness of Homer.