S10E7 - Ethiopian and Out with the Snake King

Greeking Out from National Geographic Kids

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Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

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🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Oh Muses! Snake kings and werecreatures await in the Ancient civilization of Aksum - modern day Ethiopia and Eritrea. In this episode we encounter common poisonous flowers, distractable birds, trade routes, early hominid skeletons, and an ancient empire. You can listen to Greeking Out two weeks early and ad free on Wondery+! What's that? You want another book? Okay!: https://bit.ly/grkoutbk2

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0:00.0	The stories featured in greeking out are usually original adaptations of classic Greek myths.
0:05.2	This week's story features common poisonous flowers, distractible birds, trade routes,
0:10.3	early hominid skeletons skeletons and an ancient empire.
0:14.0	Breaking out the greatest stories in history
0:18.0	were told in Greek mythology.
0:21.0	Breaking out gods and heroes amazing feats,
0:25.0	bliss and you'll see it's.
0:27.0	Grecing out.
0:30.0	Welcome back to Grecing out.
0:32.0	Today we're going on a field trip to a brand new place, Ethiopia.
0:37.0	Yeah, we're Ethiopian out, in Ethiopia and out.
0:42.0	Okay, I can't think about it. out in Ethiopia in and out.
0:43.0	Okay, I can't think of a good pun.
0:45.6	Anyway, we're actually headed to the ancient kingdom of Oxum,
0:49.1	which comprises both Ethiopia and Eritrea, and is not exactly new to the ancient Greek world.
0:56.5	We've talked about folks from this region before.
0:58.4	And Dromida was debatedly from this area and so was Memon, a great king we talked about during the Trojan War.
1:05.2	The ancient Greeks were connected with the people of ancient Aksum through trade routes that went
1:10.4	all the way to the Indian Ocean.
1:13.2	There is evidence that Roman merchants
1:16.9	traveled to India carried by Ethiopian ships.
1:21.7	Some people in ancient Aksum may have worshipped Greek gods.
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