Sing, Muses, sing to me a story of Olympus and the death of Scods who govern Earth, Sea,

and Sky. That is Helen's plea as she stands upon the highest hour of Troy. She wishes

to hear the story of her flight from Greece, of the war that ensued. In its recitation,

she seeks punishment. For she and her lover Paris have brought this ancient city to its

destruction. 10,000 Greeks spill into the streets beneath her. They are a deluge of flame,

and the embers rising from their savage work write new constellations into the night sky.

But it is not the Muses that company of sisters that come to Helen. It is a lone goddess who

appears upon the battlements. Her beauty is unforgiving, uncompromising. It's a perfection

that befits marble, not flesh. Indeed, when she wipes a tear from Helen's rosy cheek,

her touch is the cold kiss of stone. It is flawless, affiditi, goddess of love, and

the story she comes to tell is her own. It's the entrance from History Hit. I'm Tristan

Hughes, your host. And today we're back with our Greek Gods and Goddesses series. Our

special series. You guys have been clamoring out all about it and how much you're enjoying

it. This is the fourth episode of this series as we make our way through these various

gods and goddesses. From ancient Greece, this incredible, quite sometimes I think it's

fair to say, complicated ancient family of deities atop Mount Olympus. We've done

Zeus, King of the Gods. We've done Hera, Queen of the Gods. We've done the God of Fire,

Her Feistus. And today we're talking all about the goddess of love. We're talking all

about affiditi. Now this special series of episodes is all about trying to give a sense

of how the stories of these Greek gods and goddesses were passed down through generations

and what they meant to the people of ancient Greece. And that's why in these episodes,

we kick them off with the story. But not just any story, a story about that particular

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