Mythology Translated Second Edition

The last curse on our Thrice damned Atreides happens, for better reasons than the others, I think. The story of Chrysippus who was either one of few happy relationships we get to hear about, or the usual rape, kidnap stuff. And the discussion of whether or not Agamemnon is Atreus or Pleisthenes son. If Pleisthenes Exists. Also the Sun does a neat thing.

Reason we are explicit: Rape, Kidnapping, Murder, Incompetent Murder, Child Stew (original recipe), Adultery, Incest, and Existential Angst

The Theban line of kings is out topic for today, with a bit of an aside into one of the more icky myths. We will be covering the line of succession from Polydorus to Amphion and talking about the story of Procne and Philomela.

Reasons we are Explicit: Rape and Mutilation, Child Stew, More Run of The Mill Murder, Magic, Transformations and Another Rape.

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Minos and Pasiphae are our topics this week, with a bit of asides about Daedelus, and Minos’s brothers. I get the giggles because apparently Pasiphae is just a bit much and I find the whole Minotaur thing insane, even for Greek Myth.

Reasons we are Explicit: Whoo Boy. Magical Transforming Ejaculate, Death Robots, Early Condom Usage, Kinkiness in Generals, Beastiality, Proof Meadows Are Never Safe, Murder, Crazy Eyes, and The Divine Right Of Rule.

References:

Pelops and Niobe are up for discussion today! We will be going over their brother who existed, How Pelops became king of Elis and Niobe’s fateful offhanded comment.

Reasons we are Explicit: Where to start? Sweet Poseidon Loving, Decorative Skulls, Several Fairly Ugly Murders, Artemis Attempting to Out Athena Athena and Random Stoning All Over The Place.

Melampus was a well known and respected greek hero we really don’t know that much about. This week’s shorter episode dives into all the variations on how he ended up becoming a famous prophet and winning a third of a kingdom.

Reasons we are explicit – Herpetology, Impersonations, Someone taking the Highlander too seriously, and people being jerks.

Bellerophon is our topic this week. We will be looking at the murdery and non murdery versions of his story, Why the Non-Murdery is easier to understand, How his story developed into what we know today, the utter devastation that is the strategy of  stand on top of something tall and throw rocks at them, also why it is a horrible idea to send someone with a letter to have them murdered. There is more Proteus in this story as apparently Bellerophon hung out with him after Perseus wandered off to found Mycenae.

Reasons we are explicit: Murder, Attempted Murder, Animal Cruelty, Poetic Licence, Fire Breathing, Culture, and Desert Hermitage.

We are wrapping up Perseus! He gets home, gets bored and founds the base for an entire civilization.  And somewhere in there proves he is kind of a good guy around the edges.

Reasons we are Explicit – Actual History and Personal Opinions, I guess a couple of murders as well.

Comic: Perseus meeting Andromeda.

We have a recap this week, which for the record is recorded exactly the way I tell myths outside of the podcast. This episode covers the death of Medusa, The rescue of Andromeda and that whole mess, and the first time we see Perseus use Medusa’s head.  There is also a book recommendation.

Featuring the Introduction of:

The Continuing story of Perseus with

Reasons we are Explicit: Nudist beaches, Neck Birth, Princess Bride References, Wanton Statuary, A Were-Boar, Angry Whales, Geography and I guess Murder via Stoning, Slicing and Straight Up Beheading of an Innocent Napping Monster.

Comic: None!

We are looking at Perseus, our first official demi-god. We will be covering his grandfather, who had issues even before the prophecy about his grandson, Perseus’ surreal conception, and show how insanely impersonally it was decided that Medusa must die.

Featuring the Introduction of: Argos, Acrisius, Proetus, Shields, Danae, Perseus, Dictys, Polydectes, Seriphos, Medusa, Stheno, Euryale, The Graeae, Scylla, Enyo, Pephredo, Persis, and Deino

The Story Of the spliting of Argos, Poor Danae, Poor Medusa, and Perseus Timed Fetch quest to save his mothers honor.

Reason we are Explicit: Sexy times, No Sexy times, The Attempt to Make Myth Make Sense, Cleverness, A Creepy Stalker, Meadows (which are now officially their own warning category), Petty Jealousy and Beautiful Old Women.

Lucian was a 2nd century CE writer who wrote Satire. One of his better known pieces is Dialogue of the Gods, one of the sections deals with Ganymede being kidnapped by Zeus.

Every time I even think of Ganymede I get sections of this running through my head, so I thought I would share.

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