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Alex Andreou revisits the classic Greek myths, and uncovers universal themes they share with us across the millennia
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- Jul 25, 20261h 31m
2.6 ODD-POD: Podyssey's Deep Dive into Chris Nolan's Odyssey
To receive the illustrated guide to each episode and an invitation to the live Q&A on Thursday 13th August at 6pm, become a monthly supporter! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** Look you have to have known this was coming. How can a podcast called Podyssey, not engage with Christopher Nolan’s epic Odyssey? But I wanted to make it special. So I have assembled a star team, of ALL the experts including, as a treat, film critic and Season 1 regular, Linda Marric. Let me alleviate the tension and tell you - we all loved the film. But that doesn’t mean we loved it equally or loved it for the same reasons. Or that we don’t disagree with plenty of the artistic choices that were made - and with each other. We discussed every aspect of the film, including some pretty controversial ones, in a session that was almost as long as the film. _________________ The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other. Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, Dr Ruth Smith, and Linda Marric. Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Jun 15, 20261h 1m
SISYPHUS LIVE Q&A - From Ironing and Chat GPT to Burnout and Camus
To receive the illustrated guide to each episode and an invitation to the live Q&As, become a monthly supporter! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** We needn't "imagine Sisyphus happy". He IS happy, just not for the reasons we thought. ... The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other. Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! ADDITIONAL LINKS Watch that incredible opening sequence from Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" here You can see a short of Wile E. Coyote as Sisyphus here *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- May 25, 20261h 37m
2.5 SISYPHUS - Papa Was a Rollin' Stone
To receive the illustrated guide to each episode and an invitation to the live Q&A on Thursday 4th June at 7pm, become a monthly supporter! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** Sisyphus - condemned to an eternity of torment. Forever rolling that giant boulder up the steepest mountain side, only to watch it roll back down as soon as it is almost at the top - his "sisyphean task", seen for millennia by so many artists and philosophers as the perfect allegory for the human condition. Most know the sentence. But how many know the crime? Why is Sisyphus being punished forever? The short answer is: for being human. The long answer is revealing, funny, profound, and very very surprising. The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other. Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Apr 27, 202632 min
Storytime: ARACHNE - Web of Truth
To receive the illustrated guide to each main episode and an invitation to the live Q&As (on Thursday 7th May at 7pm), become a monthly supporter! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** Welcome to a new outpost of the Podyssey Empire - PODYSSEY STORYTIME. Basically, while researching the main episodes, I stumble on many other myths - MANY other myths - that are really touching or funny or outright bizarre. They don’t necessarily warrant hours of deep analysis, but they are absolutely worth sharing. And since I cannot retain an infinite amount of information but I love giving you more content, I will put these out, as I find them, in this short, story-only format. Now, on to this weekend’s myth, the story of Arachne, the talented Lydian weaver, who challenged the Goddess Athena to a contest, sort of by accident, and wound up with quite the itsy-bitsy problem. *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** (COVER ART: Nikolaos Gyzis/Νικόλαος Γκύζης, "Η Αράχνη/Arachne", 1884 - Εθνική Πινακοθήκη/National Gallery, Αθήνα/Athens) (MUSIC: Roussel: "Le Festin de l'Araignee", Jean Martinon, 1953; Canteloube: "Lo Fiolairé" (The Spinner), Madeleine Grey, 1930; Debussy: "The Maid with The Flaxen Hair", Laurindo Almeida, 1964; Verdi: Requiem "Des Irae", Tullio Serafin, 1939; "That Old Black Magic", Beryl Davis with the Stephane Grappelli Quartet, 1943.) Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Apr 18, 202656 min
BONUS: Europa Live Q&A - Of Ancient Tax Havens and Flying Penises
To receive the illustrated guide to each episode and an invitation to the live Q&A on Thursday 16th April at 8pm, become a monthly supporter! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** From a Phoenician Princess kidnapped from the beach, to Nazi experiments trying to revive the Zeus-Bull; from victim to mother of the Minoan civilisation; from the Catholic Church, to the euro currency... The myth of the abduction of Europa is, in many ways, the most consequential one for modernity. It is the source of our sense of Westerness. The link to a past that acts as a decryption key, that turns a series of points into an arc. It is the origin story of our view of the world in which we live. ... The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other. Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! ADDITIONAL MUSIC Meyerbeer: L'Africaine - "Selika's Death", Denise Monteil, 1965 "Cows Don't Fly", Pearl Trio, 1947 "Don't Fence Me In", Lee Monti's Tutones, 1951 *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Apr 11, 20261h 14m
2.4 EUROPA II: How to invent a continent
To receive the illustrated guide to each episode and an invitation to the live Q&A on Thursday 16th April at 8pm, become a monthly supporter! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** From a Phoenician Princess kidnapped from the beach, to Nazi experiments trying to revive the Zeus-Bull; from victim to mother of the Minoan civilisation; from the Catholic Church, to the euro currency... The myth of the abduction of Europa is, in many ways, the most consequential one for modernity. It is the source of our sense of Westerness. The link to a past that acts as a decryption key, that turns a series of points into an arc. It is the origin story of our view of the world in which we live. ... The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other. Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Apr 9, 202658 min
2.3 EUROPA I: Quite a lot of bull
To receive the illustrated guide to each episode and an invitation to the live Q&A on Thursday 16th April at 8pm, become a monthly supporter! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** From a Phoenician Princess kidnapped from the beach, to Nazi experiments trying to revive the Zeus-Bull; from victim to mother of the Minoan civilisation; from the Catholic Church, to the euro currency... The myth of the abduction of Europa is, in many ways, the most consequential one for modernity. It is the source of our sense of Westerness. The link to a past that acts as a decryption key, that turns a series of points into an arc. It is the origin story of our view of the world in which we live. ... The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other. Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Mar 8, 202653 min
BONUS: Pandora Live Q&A
*** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** Make sure you are on ko-fi as a monthly subscriber, with the right email, so you get an invite to these LIVE sessions every other Thursday, as well as an illustrated guide to each episode. ... The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other. Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! MUSIC Red River Dave, "I wish I had my first wife back", 1944 Richard Wagner, Lohengrin: "Mein lieber Schwan", Lauritz Melchior, 1938 *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Amanda Potter, and Dr Ruth Smith Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou Additional research by Kos Mantzakos Illustrated Guide design by Daniel Block A Cooler Heads podcast *** SUPPORT PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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