The stories featured in Greek out are original adaptations of classic Greek myths.

This week's story features the Syrian section, Love Gone Wrong,

the offstage death of a minor character,

anatomically named gods, death by honey, and the perils of being the healer.

Today, our story starts, as they often do, with a god and a baby.

Apollo had fallen in love. Yes, that Apollo, god of light, art healing,

and a bunch of other random stuff like archery, poetry, and the plague.

He met the beautiful woman, Coronus, and she captured his heart, at least for a little while,

or for as long as you can have the heart of an immortal god.

And this isn't the first time that Apollo had fallen in love.

Or even the first story we've told about one of Apollo's loves on this podcast.

Remember Cassandra?

Apollo was super into her, and she was not super into Apollo.

But Coronus and Apollo weren't like that.

For a while, they made a really nice couple,

and things were going along well.

But unfortunately, sometimes love is not meant to last.

Stop me if you've heard this one before.

It happens a lot with Zeus in particular, right?

An immortal god falls for a mortal human, and eventually gets bored and moves on.

Well, that's what happened here, except this time, it was the human who wanted to move on.

Coronus fell in love with someone else. His name was Iscus.

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