Perseus 6: The Weight of the Sky

Live from Mount Olympus

Onassis Foundation

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In the Garden of the Hesperides, Hermes gathers apples for the next leg of the journey while Perseus collects stories from the Titan Atlas, who holds up the sky.

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	Go ahead. Let's see that loop de loop.
0:08.0	It will be quite an obstacle course in their perseus full of petrified warriors
0:17.0	Each challenger went into the cave thinking he would be the one, non-return.
0:25.0	What is that?
0:27.0	Steady, Perseus.
0:29.0	Athena, I will guide your hand.
0:31.0	Oh God!
0:34.0	What is coming out of her neck?
0:36.0	Strange, the Gorgon sounded so sad.
0:45.0	I didn't expect to feel bad for monsters.
0:47.5	Violence always leaves a mark, Perseus. Live from Mount Olympus is produced by the Onassis Foundation and is a proud member of Tracks from PRX.
1:19.0	Ah! from PRX. Ah, it's so peaceful here. Welcome to the Garden of the
1:23.7	hisperities, Pessius. I do love their apples.
1:25.8	I think I need a breather. I'm going for a walk.
1:30.2	Let me just set this bag down.
1:31.6	Put it down?
1:33.2	Absolutely not.
1:35.4	That head could be fully operational.
1:37.6	What?
1:38.4	It's still dangerous?
1:40.2	There's a reason the nymphs gave you that magical bag.
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