A surprise academic episode! It turns out, to my surprise, that Plutarch is a necessary source of the frame work for  story of Theseus. So this week we are looking at Plutarch and his life work “Parallel Lives”.

065 – Not The Guy From The Hunger Games

A sometimes snarky, often irreverent summary of Mythology by culture based on the literature that survives to our time and sometimes doesn't. Starting with Greek Myth with an attempt to keep to an internal chronology when one exists.

History

Society & Culture

In which we go over the basics of the Olympians, discuss the options towards the number of Significant Others Zeus has before settling on Hera, and I have some Opinions on the matter. Also a bit on Practical Religion Vs Myth.

009 - The Many Wives Of Zeus

This week we are talking about the Titanmache, The Final Battle of the Titanmache because that is the only battle where anything happened anyway, The further pissing off of Gaia and The Divvying of Lots

Episode 8 – It’s All Fun and Games Til Someone Dies Horribly

In which we talk about source chains, the positive aspects of being pedantic and ponder over lost sources.

007 - The Completely Arbitrary Nature of The Cosmos

In This episode we cover Zeus formative years, His first wife, his stunning ability to hold is alcohol and get all ready to rumble! At the End there is Bonus Millie Bird as she was having some pretty amusing opinions on what constituted a "danger" to...

006 - Baby Zeus Is Still Zeus

In Which we finish up our begetting, Kronos tries to work thru some stuff and Rhea gets both confused and played.

065 – Not The Guy From The Hunger Games

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