S2E3 - Atalanta the Warrior

Greeking Out from National Geographic Kids

National Geographic

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.7 • 16.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Oh Muses! In this episode we tell the tale of Atalanta the Warrior and her adventures. We come across rampaging centaurs, estranged fathers, spiteful log burning, and some shiny shiny golden apples. --- National Geographic Kids Greeking Out is a kid-friendly retelling of some of the best stories from Greek Mythology. Check out https://bit.ly/GO-ZTM to meet Zeus the Hamster and his friends-Athena the Cat, Ares the Pug, Demeter the grasshopper, and many more-who also listen to the Greeking Out podcast. Watch a video, read an excerpt, or check out the truth behind the stories!

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0:00.0	The stories featured in Greak'ing Out are original adaptations of classic Greak myths.
0:04.2	This week's story features rampaging centars, estranged fathers,
0:08.1	spiteful log-burning, and shiny, shiny golden apples.
0:12.1	Greak'ing Out, the greatest stories in history, were to all in Greak mythology.
0:20.2	Greak'ing Out, gods and heroes amazing feats, listen then you'll see it's Greak'ing Out.
0:29.9	Atlanta, the warrior princess.
0:33.8	There are a lot of great warrior heroes in Greak mythology.
0:37.7	Each of them are unique in their own way, but they all have one thing in common.
0:42.9	Their dudes.
0:43.9	Dude is slang for an individual typically male.
0:48.4	The term originates from the late 1800s when dude primarily referred to someone who dressed
0:54.7	extremely fashionably, especially in a rural location.
0:59.4	A city slicker if you will.
1:02.2	Thanks Oracle.
1:04.2	In Bengali, a language spoken in Bangladesh and parts of India,
1:08.6	a dude is a hair on an elephant's butt.
1:12.4	Okay, well thanks for that too.
1:15.0	What I'm getting at here is that there are not many female warriors in these stories.
1:20.3	There are plenty of female heroes in Greak mythology, but very few of them picked up a sword or a bow.
1:26.1	But there is one very notable exception.
1:29.7	She is Atlanta.
1:31.5	The great warrior princess and her story is amazing, but it starts out in a...
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