Perseus Bonus — The Trickster

Live from Mount Olympus

Onassis Foundation

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Hermes is barely out of his cradle when he comes up with a tricky plan to join the other gods on Mount Olympus. Annoying his big brother Apollo is the first step.

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	Hello again, dear listener.
0:04.0	Thanks for tuning into my new God's part,
0:07.0	live from Mount Olympus.
0:09.0	I'm Hermes, Herald of the Gods and Favorite of Storytellers, and anyone wishing for luck.
0:17.2	I have a bonus for you.
0:20.0	If you haven't noticed already, I must point out the irony that my half brother Perseus and I are sons of Zeus, king of the gods.
0:30.0	Yet we both began our lives in such small, dismal places.
0:35.4	Almost seems like someone should pay more attention to his children. Oh, Father, lovely to know you're tuning in to my God's Park, too. You must remember where I was born. A cave, cold, dreary. Smoky when the fire got going.
1:00.4	Hermes, it's time for bed, you rascoup.
1:04.0	One song, please.
1:06.0	One song.
1:08.0	My mother, Maya, a beautiful mountain nymph,
1:12.0	tucked us away in this humble cave on Mount Kaleini
1:16.3	when I was born. That's because my father was married to someone else, the goddess hero who was furious about her husband's
1:25.6	roving eye and often punished his lovers and their children. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. You definitely get your good looks from your mother.
1:49.0	Good night, little one. Sleep well. No midnight wandering.
1:57.0	Good night, mother.
2:00.0	As soon as my mother closed her eyes, I found my way out of a little cave and
2:07.0	breathe the sweet night air.
2:09.9	It was in that moment that I knew I, Hermes would ascend the ranks, earn my father's
2:17.8	favor, and join the golden ones on Mount Olympus. I just needed a plan to show them my work. Poning my
2:27.8	strategy with every step. I strutted down the mountainside and into a huge field.
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