Perseus 2: A Question and a Quest
Live from Mount Olympus
Onassis Foundation
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
A fisherman named Dictys finds a big wooden crate caught in his nets. Inside are a mother and her baby. Dictys takes them back to his simple little hut and cares for them as if they were his own family. As baby Perseus grows into a young man, he wonders where he came from and who he really is, and makes a crazy vow to save his mom from an evil king.
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.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Live from Mount Olympus is produced by the Onassis Foundation and is a proud member of |
| 0:08.1 | Tracks from PRX. |
| 0:10.1 | Did you hear that? |
| 0:12.1 | It sounded like a baby. |
| 0:14.0 | A baby. |
| 0:15.0 | You have a son? |
| 0:18.0 | When the King of the gods appeared, what would you have me do? |
| 0:22.0 | Traitor, you knew the Oracle's prophecy. |
| 0:25.0 | Your son will kill me. |
| 0:28.0 | No! |
| 0:29.0 | Father, what are you doing? |
| 0:30.0 | Agh! |
| 0:32.0 | Agh! Whoa! |
| 0:34.0 | They're going to? |
| 0:37.0 | Perseus, my little hero. |
| 0:40.0 | Perseus, my little hero. I hope your first adventure is not your last. The Greek gods live high on Mount Olympus, but from time to time we walk among |
| 1:10.5 | you mortals and wherever the gods move, stories are born. |
| 1:17.0 | This story takes us aboard a rickety little boat off the coast of a small Greek island |
| 1:25.8 | Where a fisherman gazes out to sea deep in contemplation |
| 1:31.3 | staring far into that distant place where dreams and wishes of a life |
| 1:36.6 | yet to be lived may be found. |
| 1:39.9 | But his reverie is broken when something on the water catches his eye, something big, bobbing |
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