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Episode 8, Before Orthodoxy.

This program is on the ancient Greek writer Heseid's poem, The Theogony, likely produced sometime in the late 700s,

a poem about the origins of the universe and the gods.

Most of us know some Greek myths.

There's the story of Perseus, son of Danay, who defeats Medusa and frees the Ethiopian princess and dromed

from the Krakan.

And there's the story of Theseus, who after defeating the minator

with the help of the Creighton princess Ariadne, abandons her on the way home to Athens

and thereafter leads a rather checkered life.

There's Bolerophon, the impious Corinthian hero who beats the monster called the chimera with the help of a winged horse that we call the Pegasus.

The myth of Persephone, kidnapped by Hades and thereafter brought back for part of the year by her mother

Demeter was especially well known to the ancient Greeks.

The Trojan War Saga is perhaps the biggest bundle of Greek myths.

At one point, it included not only the Iliad and the Odyssey which still survived today,

but also other lost poems called the Kipria, Etheopis, Little Iliad, Iliu Persis, Nostoy, and Tellegony, a group of lost

epics that used to frame the works of Homer into a much longer story.

There are hundreds of Greek myths and they form a never-endingly complicated web of gods, people, and

creatures.

Grandparents, parents and children, prequels and sequels.

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