Mythlet: "I Bestow Upon Thee My Adamantine Sword"

Live from Mount Olympus

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🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Remember the moment in Episode 2 when Hermes gives Perseus that cool sword? In our first Live from Mount Olympus Mythlet, find out what makes the sword so special – and why it has that wicked curve to it. Dr. Kate Birney, who is an expert on ancient weapons and teaches archaeology at Wesleyan University, is our guide to the mythical roots of this powerful weapon.

Live from Mount Olympus is a production of the Onassis Foundation, and co-produced by The TEAM. The podcast is directed by Tony Award-winner Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown) and Zhailon Levingston (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical) and created by Peabody Award-winning producer Julie Burstein. Karen Brooks Hopkins is the executive producer.

Live from Mount Olympus is presented by TRAX from PRX with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Find out more at Onassis.link/Olympus

Our actors include Vinie Burrows, Jill Frutkin, Divine Garland, Amber Gray, Adrienne Hopkins, Natalie Hopkins, Modesto "Flako" Jimenez, Libby King, Ian Lassiter, Zhailon Levingston, Christina Liberus, Nehemiah Luckett, Jake Margolin, James Harrison Monaco, Kristen Sieh, Jillian Walker, Baby Perseus is played by Calvin Samuel Blanch and Whit Vega Margolin-Vaughan, and André De Shields is Hermes.

Our production team includes: sound designer David Schulman; production assistant Tessa Zitter; writer Nathan Yungerberg; music composed and performed by Magda Giannikou with Luca Bordonaro; and illustrations by Jason Adam Katzenstein.

Our guest today, Dr. Kate Birney, is Chair of the Archaeology Department at Wesleyan University. Our mythlets are produced by Tessa Zitter and Julie Burstein and mastered by John Melillo.

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0:00.0	Hi mom.
0:03.2	Percy's, where have you been?
0:07.0	Have you missed us?
0:08.0	Well, we've definitely missed you.
0:11.0	And guess what?
0:12.0	We're hard at work on season two of live from Mount Olympus.
0:17.0	I'm not allowed to give away too much, but what I can tell you is that we will venture deep into the underworld.
0:34.0	Yep, you've heard it here first.
0:36.0	We're going to the underworld.
0:39.0	But in the meantime, we have some new ideas to share about how Perseus accomplished his amazing quest.
0:47.5	I am Perseus, son of Zeus.
0:50.9	I just lay the Gorgon, Madusa.
0:54.0	Welcome to our first live from Mount Olympus Mythlet.
0:57.4	A couple of minutes of backstory to Perseus' adventures.
1:01.8	Saving the universe involves swaying dragons, right?
1:05.0	Saving the universe means killing the beast.
1:09.0	That's Dr. Kate Bernie,
1:12.0	and I must warn you it's about to get gory because Dr. Bernie loves
1:18.9	ancient weapons.
1:20.9	If you're a mortal and you have to kill the beast, then you need special tools and special help and special ways of fighting.
1:29.0	I bestow upon thee my Aramantine sword, strong enough to cut any substance known to man or God.
1:39.1	The fact that the sword Hermes gives to Perseus is made of Amentine is a clue that Perseus and his
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