Hi Tristan here and I have an exciting announcement. The ancients has been invited to open the London

podcast festival. We will be recording our very first live show on Thursday the 5th of September at 7 p.m. at King's Place and

being the first live show where we wanted to be extra special so I've invited a friend

of the podcast professor Lloyd Loellen Jones, to join me on stage where we will be diving into the captivating story of the Tower of Babel.

From its first mention in the Book of Genesis to the real life great ancient Babylonian structure

that it was based on. Of course the ancient is nothing without you so we want you to be there

in the audience taking part and asking us your burning questions.

Tickets for the festival always sell fast, so book yourself a seat now at

W.W. dot Kingsplace. Co-Dokuk,

forward slash what's on,

or click the link in the show notes of this episode.

I really hope to see you there. Sing, Musas. to me a story of Olympus and the death as gods who govern earth, sea, and sky.

That is what the young boy whispers into the flames. He has spent all day gathering

wood to feed the fire picking through the bones of his home. The bed, his father

whittled, the chair his mother rocked him in as a babe, the eaves under which he slept all his nine years.

There was little of the house that was not already burnt. The soldiers saw to that.

Just as they saw to the massacre of the entire colony.

He heard it, that young boy. The trap door to the cellar may have been hidden, but it was not thick enough to keep out the screams.

He hears it even now in the cracking and popping of the fire. The gods,

surely they will offer some revenge, some justice. So the young boy makes an offering of his last morsels of food.

He prays to Zeus, the father of godsome men, to Athena, the maiden of wisdom and war, to Apollo the Archer, Artemis

the hunter, Ephistus the craftsman. He prays to all those who dwell upon Olympus, all except one.

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