Apollo: God of the Sun

The Ancients

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🗓️ 21 April 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Apollo, the favourite son of Zeus and twin brother of Artemis, was a Greek God with many faces. Perhaps most famous as Phoebus, the God of the Sun, he was the patron of poetry and prophecy, of music and dance. And yet he also possessed a darker side. He was a terribly vengeful character and brought death and disease to both those he hated and loved through his trademark poisonous arrows.

In this episode of The Ancients, Tristan Hughes is joined by Liv Albert, host of the podcast Let's Talk About Myths Baby to peel back the layers from one of Greek mythology's most complicated characters.

This episode was produced by Joseph Knight and edited by Aidan Lonergan.

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0:27.8	Okay, we'll stop with the ears now. Sing, Muses.
0:33.7	to me a story. Sing to me a story. Sing, Musas.
0:43.4	Sing to me a story of Olympus and the deathest gods who govern Earth, sea, and sky.
0:49.0	So ask, young Melanthus, as he bundles himself up against the cold on Mount Cipilos.
0:56.7	He has not come alone. He leads Nesta by the arm, helping the old king navigate
1:02.1	the mountain path on frail faltering legs.
1:06.1	Nesta calls Melanthus grandson and the young boy does not correct him.
1:11.2	The truth, the 13 generations that separate them, it would only confuse the old
1:17.0	man now, and he has already lived too much of his long life in a fog. This desire, this compulsion to visit Cipilous has become
1:28.1	Nesta's only constant. Why, Melanthus cannot say, Nesta will not explain.
1:37.0	Perhaps he does not even know himself.
1:40.4	And yet, as they climb, Melanthus notices the old king's mumbling cease,
1:47.0	his eyes focus, scinility burning off like morning mist.
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