Pandora 1: "Zeus said it must stay closed - it must!"

Live from Mount Olympus

Onassis Foundation

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

When Prometheus betrays him by stealing fire, Zeus commands Hephaestus to create a beautiful woman out of clay. Hermes gives her the perfect name: Pandora - all the gifts - and escorts her to earth as a gift for the mudmen. But is Zeus's beautiful gift actually an evil wrapped in beauty?

Live from Mount Olympus is produced by the Onassis Foundation. Karen Brooks Hopkins is executive producer. Our series creator and showrunner is Julie Burstein. Live from Mount Olympus is co-produced by Brooklyn-based theatre collective The TEAM. Our co-directors are Rachel Chavkin, Zhailon Levingston, and Keenan Tyler Oliphant, with additional directing from Sara Blush.

And our actors are: Rolls Andre, Ato Blankson-Wood, Sean Carvajal, Jill Frutkin, Abel Garcia, Divine Garland, Monée Cherie Hunter, Modesto “Flako” Jimenez, Libby King, Ian Lassiter, Zhailon Levingston, Christina Liberus, Kimberly Marable, Jake Margolin, Lizan Mitchell, James Harrison Monaco, Gregg Mozgala, Xavier Pacheco, Maya Sharpe, Kristen Sieh, Ahmad Simmons, Nedra Marie Taylor, Eirene Tuakora, Ching Valdes-Aran, vickie washington, and André De Shields is Hermes.

Special thanks to Adrienne Hopkins, Caroline Hopkins, and Natalie Hopkins.

The TEAM’s Producing Director is Emma Orme, and Associate Producer is Sabine Decatur. We thank the artists and leaders of Epic Theater Ensemble for their continued collaboration!

Live from Mount Olympus is written by Nathan Yungerberg with Julie Burstein and Jason Adam Katzenstein.

Audio production and mix by John Melillo. Audio editing and sound design by Yonatan Rekem. Magdalini Giannikou composed our original music which is performed by Banda Magda. Jason Adam Katzenstein created our illustrations and is series humor consultant.

A big thank you to our creative advisors: Dr. Michael Cohen, Richard Nodell, and Effie Tsiotsiou.

Mandy Boikou is Administrative Director and Sofia Pipa is Project Manager at Onassis USA. Gizelle Winter is our series antiquities consultant.

Live from Mount Olympus was recorded with engineers Roy Hendrickson, Ian Kagey, Mor Mezrich, Matthew Sullivan, and Benjamin Miller at The Power Station at Berklee NYC. Press by Grand Communications. Graphic design by Onassis Creative Studio.

Live from Mount Olympus is distributed by PRX.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Live from Mount Olympus is produced by the Onassis Foundation and distributed by PRX. The Greek gods live high on Mount Olympus, but from time to time we walk among
0:31.5	you mortals and wherever the guards move stories are born.
0:40.0	Our next story may sound a bit familiar.
0:44.0	Picture a girl.
0:47.0	Now, picture a box.
0:50.0	It's so beautiful. I must open it.
0:55.0	No, you must never, ever, ever open that box.
1:00.0	You may be thinking, I know this one, but my little hero.
1:06.6	You've never heard this story told this way before.
1:10.7	Did you know, for instance, that there never was a box?
1:15.0	It's true, and I think that you, dear listener, can handle the truth.
1:21.0	But what is truth?
1:25.0	Is it in the eye of the beholder?
1:28.0	Or found in the tale itself.
1:31.0	As I often say, there are so many stories to tell and so many ways to tell them.
1:38.0	And today, we're going to hear this time-worn story as it was first told by a prickly old pair named
1:48.5	Heseud. As Heseo tells it, there never was a box. Instead it was a jar. A really, really, really big jar called epitheus the kind of jar that in ancient times might hold oil or wine or even dead bodies. That old rascal he said that old rascal he's here found this story so nice, he told it twice.
2:28.0	Both of his versions begin on Mount Olympus, with my father Zeus pacing up and down the halls of his palace miserable and alone.
2:42.0	Huh. and alone. What a mess!
2:47.0	He's broken everything, and now it's my job to put it all back together.
2:52.0	Oh, heavy is the beautiful head of hair that
2:56.3	wears the Olympian crown. Prometheus, you cutting thief, you tricked me.
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