The stories featured in Greak-Out are original adaptations of classic Greek myths.

This week's story features some light cannibalism, cheating in a competition,

assaulty god, prophecies concerning babies, and the death of a close friend.

Do you smell that oracle? That beautiful aroma of adventure and romance? That's the smell of a

brand new season of Greak-Out. I cannot smell. Right, right, that's right. Yeah, well,

it was a metaphorical smell anyway because I'm just so excited to be back for season seven.

After the break, we are once again ready to talk about some of our favorite gods and goddesses

from Greek mythology. Technically, we are not supposed to declare favorites. Really? Why not?

It helps us maintain an air of professionalism and impartiality. Okay, well, today's episode is

all about the goddess Athena, who may or may not be my personal favorite. Long time listeners may

remember her from previous episodes. Like Arachni, the weaver in season one. She was also

mentioned in last season's episodes as one of the most influential gods in the Trojan war.

Exactly, but we wanted to talk about her more because, well, frankly, Athena is a bit of a rock star.

While Athena did play the flute, but she does not have any sort of involvement in a band,

rock, or otherwise. Yeah, it's just an expression oracle. It means she's very impressive. She's just

got that cool factor, you know? Athena is the goddess of wisdom and war. I do not see anything about a

cool factor. Well, because Athena is so impressive, we decided to dedicate this episode to some of her

adventures and where better to start than with her rather impressive birth story. Athena's father is

Zeus. Her mother is Matis, the oceanid, named. Matis is another interesting character in Greek

mythology. She was a Titan and Zeus's first wife. There are a lot of stories about Matis actually,

but we'll save those for another episode. Now, unfortunately for Matis, she might be best known for

a prophecy about her future children. The prophecy declared that Matis would bear two children,

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