Perseus 3: We're Related???

Live from Mount Olympus

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🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Perseus meets two powerful half-siblings he never knew he had, and confronts his mother Danae about the secrets she’s kept his whole life.

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	Previously on live from Mount Olympus.
0:05.0	Who is his father?
0:09.0	That's not for me to say.
0:11.0	King Claude Dectis.
0:12.0	He's a king, he commanded me. You shall marry me instead.
0:16.0	Excuse me? Ew! What does that smell? I offer my services. What a sweet idea.
0:25.0	Bring me the head of the Gorgon-Medusa.
0:28.0	Done.
0:29.0	No, Perseus.
0:30.0	And when you fail, your mother will make an acceptable substitute.
0:35.0	That will never happen.
0:37.0	Medusa's head will be yours. Live from Mount Olympus is produced by the Onassis Foundation and is a proud member of Tracks from PRX.
1:05.0	Oh gods, I'm sunk. Oh, you really are, brother.
1:07.5	To epic depth.
1:08.5	Who are you? It's good you understand the gravity of the situation, Perseus.
1:16.0	It really is.
1:18.0	For a moment, I wondered if you had permanently taken leave of your senses.
1:23.0	How are you so handsome?
1:28.0	Flying.
1:29.0	Come brother, to your heart.
1:31.0	Don't worry, I can walk as well as fly. It's a bit slow but we'd have much to discuss
1:40.7	all the ways Medusa could destroy you, for example.
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