Perseus 1: The Prophecy

Live from Mount Olympus

Onassis Foundation

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🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Locked up in a tall stone tower by her father the king, Princess Danae is terribly lonely. But she has a big secret. When it’s revealed she has to face her father’s rage. What will happen to her next?

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, 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; writer Alexie Basil; story editor Nalini Jones; music composed and performed by Magda Giannikou with Luca Bordonaro; and illustrations by Jason Adam Katzenstein.

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0:00.0	The Greek gods live high on Mount Olympus, but from time to time we walk among
0:10.6	new mortals and wherever the gods move stories are born.
0:19.8	And I know them all. Let me introduce myself. Her means, messenger to the gods. So I hear all the
0:28.8	juiciest gossip. And that's why I'm the host of our new God's part, live from Mount Olympus.
0:41.0	Long ago, or was it just yesterday?
0:45.0	A king locked his daughter in a tall stone tower overlooking the sea.
0:51.0	But the princess had a secret.
0:55.0	And there, that's Orion.
1:00.0	See the three brightest stars right there?
1:02.0	That's his belt, and his club raised high like this.
1:05.7	Raw!
1:06.5	That's my little hero.
1:11.5	If this tower had a window, imagine one right there, set in the stone.
1:16.0	You could look out at the sea, taste the salt in the air.
1:21.0	Listen. You can hear the wave.
1:24.0	Why must we climb all these stairs again?
1:28.0	We already did the last check-in. It's the anniversary of the prophecy. You know how he gets.
1:37.0	Oh no, they're back. Let's play the quiet game again, okay?
1:43.0	One, two, three, quiet.
1:47.0	Did you hear that?
1:49.0	Hear what?
1:50.0	It sounded like a baby.
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