Demeter with Natalie Haynes
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Demeter is the Goddess of the Harvest and Agriculture in Ancient Greek mythology.
Mother of Persephone, and daughter of Kronos and Rhea, Demeter is often overlooked in myth despite her immense power. Demeter's role gave insight into how the Ancient Greeks viewed not only the harvest and it's bounty - but their fear of devastating famines and a Mother's wrath.
In this episode, Tristan welcomes back Natalie Haynes to plunge into the mythology surrounding Demeter and her significance to Ancient Greek society.
Senior Producer: Elena Guthrie
Assistant Producer: Annie Coloe
Editor: Aidan Lonergan & Annie Coloe
Scriptwriter: Andrew Hulse
Voice Actor: Nichola Wooley
Other episodes in this series include: Zeus, Hera, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Ares, Athena, King Midas, Achilles, Poseidon, Medusa, Hades, and Persephone.
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| 1:05.0 | Sing to me a story of Olympus and the deathless gods who govern Earth, sea and sky. |
| 1:11.0 | So asks Salt Kist Metra |
| 1:13.0 | Princess of Fessily. |
| 1:15.0 | They are the first words to sound in the palace hall for some time. |
| 1:22.0 | Only Metra and her father, King Eresixon, are left. And the king struggles |
| 1:29.6 | to speak anymore. Words are hard to form with shattered teeth and splinter gums. |
| 1:37.4 | His palace in Thessaly is a plate picked clean. There is no food in the pantries, nor fruit in the orchards, nor fodder in the stables. They were the first places, |
| 1:50.1 | Eresix on Rangtacked. There is no bird song in the palace gardens. |
| 1:55.1 | Eris 6thon stalked the birds with bow and arrow and devoured them feather, beak and |
| 2:01.2 | fluted bone. |
| 2:02.8 | There isn't even the sound of termites. |
| 2:05.8 | Erosixon sucked them from the palace timbers like marrow from a cracked bone. |
| 2:11.6 | His appetite is unnatural, insatiable. It has all but |
| 2:18.0 | destroyed him. That is why Metra calls upon the muses for explanation for aid. |
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