Perseus 4: I Smell Fear

Live from Mount Olympus

Onassis Foundation

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🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Hermes flies Perseus to the Island of Cisthene, where the Gray Sisters live. They’re three very old ladies — how hard could it be for Perseus to get what he needs? Plenty hard, as he quickly finds out.

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	Hold tight now.
0:06.0	If Mattis bears you a son, he will unseat you.
0:12.0	No!
0:14.0	You have nothing to fear, Father, but I belong to no man.
0:20.0	I bestow upon thee my adamantine soul.
0:25.0	I am Perseus, son of Zeus.
0:28.0	Bow before me, foul Gordon.
0:30.0	Perseus, your origins don't define you and they won't save you.
0:34.0	Go say goodbye to your mother.
0:36.0	She will want to see you one last time.
0:38.0	Oh, right. Live from Mount Olympus is produced by the Onassis Foundation and is a proud member of
0:57.7	Tracks from PRX.
0:59.7	Ready?
1:01.7	Hold tight now.
1:05.0	And the lift door!
1:10.0	Oh my God! God!
1:14.0	Whohoo!
1:17.0	Hey Hermes!
1:18.0	My hunt looks so tiny from a pair.
1:21.0	And those goats, they look like ants.
1:23.7	Ah, the wonders of a boy's first flight.
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