Alex Andreou's Podyssey

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What is there to be said about Prometheus that has not been said already, by voices much more illustrious than mine - from Plato to Goethe and Aeschylus to Mary Shelley?

Quite a lot it turns out. This is the beauty of myths - they wrap around each present differently, always revealing different things.

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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!

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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

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Did the Ancient Greeks keep pets? What did they think of them and how did they treat them?

This was the question asked by a subscriber, during a live zoom session. And although the topic did not fit well within the format of the show, it was nonetheless so tantalising a question, that I thought it merited a little bonus episode of its own. 

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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!

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Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, and Dr Ruth Smith

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

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Apples - especially Golden Apples - keep popping up throughout mythology, dripping with rich - and often conflicting - symbolism. The influence of these stories pervades religion, music, modern art, cinema, and technology. Funny story: they probably weren't apples.

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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!

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Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

A Cooler Heads podcast

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Most of what you think you know about the story of Narcissus, is wrong. This isn’t a story of conceit or vanity. It isn’t even the story of one person. It is a story of unrequited love and pain, of the corruption of innocence, of losing oneself. 

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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! 

Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

A Cooler Heads podcast

NOTES

MUSIC 

Podyssey Theme: “⁠⁠To Margoudi ki o Alexandris⁠⁠”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission)

Alphonse Hasselmans: Gitane Op.21, Rosa Spier, 1954

Antonio Vivaldi: LE QUATTRO STAGIONI "L'Estate" - Allegro, Henry Swoboda, 1950

Belle Baker: "Mad about the boy", 1939

Walter Feldkamp: "Reflections in the water", 1933

Domenico Bartolucci: "Crux Fidelis", Cappella Sistina, 1960

Charles Gounod: FAUST “Jewel Song”, Joan Sutherland, 1959

Camille Saint-Saëns: “The Swan”, Clara Rockmore, 1953

Giacomo Meyerbeer: DINORAH “Shadow Song”, Maria Callas, 1954

Lena Horne: "You go to my head", 1946

Daniel Pinkham: "Slow, slow fresh fount", John McCollum, 1961

Rudolf Friml: ROSE-MARIE “Indian Love Call”, Ann Blyth & Lorenzo Lamas, 1954

FILM

The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134119⁠/

Snow White (1937) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029583/⁠ 

All About Eve (1950) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/⁠ 

The Shape of Water (2017)  ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5580390/⁠ 

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037988/⁠ 

Black Swan (2010) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0947798/⁠ 

Ingrid Goes West (2017) ⁠https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5962210/⁠ 

ART

“Narcissus” by Caravaggio ⁠https://www.caravaggio.org/narcissus.jsp⁠ 

“Metamorphosis of Narcissus” by Salvador Dalí ⁠https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dali-metamorphosis-of-narcissus-t02343⁠ 

“The Nymph Echo” by Max Ernst ⁠https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79316⁠ 

Narcissus Fresco in Pompeii by Anon. ⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_%28mythology%29#/media/File:Narcissus_on_a_Pompeian_fresco.jpg⁠ 

“Echo and Narcissus” by John William Waterhouse ⁠https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/echo-and-narcissus⁠ 

“Narcissus” by Follower of Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio ⁠https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/follower-of-giovanni-antonio-boltraffio-narcissus⁠ 

"Mr. O'Wilde, You are not the first one that has grasped at a Shadow" by Thomas Nast 

 ⁠https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/820022⁠ 

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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! 

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Written and presented by Alex Andreou

Music by Marianna Sangita

Artwork by Simona Kanellou

A Cooler Heads coproduction

NOTES

MUSIC

Podyssey Theme: “⁠⁠To Margoudi ki o Alexandris⁠⁠”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission)

Irving Berlin: “⁠I'm beginning to miss you”, Jon and Sondra Steele, 1949

Lerner & Lowe: ⁠“⁠⁠Come to me, bend to me⁠”, Floyd Sherman, 1947
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