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🗓️ 1 December 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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0:00.0 | The stories featured in Grecing Out are original adaptations of classic Greek myths. |
0:04.4 | This week's story features a large amount of siblings, diplomatic relations, attempted horse |
0:09.2 | thievry, treacherous letter writing, and a boy and his horse. |
0:13.0 | Breaking out the greatest stories in history |
0:17.0 | we're told in Greek mythology. |
0:20.0 | G. Geeching out, gods and heroes heroes amazing feats |
0:23.7 | listen and you'll see it's greting out |
0:30.0 | so you've heard of Pegasus right the great big white horse with wings that carried his hero into battle? |
0:35.6 | Chances are, when you think of Pegasus, you probably think of Heracles or maybe Perseus. |
0:41.2 | But the truth is, Pegasus' partner in Heroics was someone else entirely. |
0:47.8 | His name was Balarophon. |
0:50.3 | You've probably never heard of him and that's okay. |
0:52.3 | You see, Pegasus was the immortal child of Poseidon and Medusa. |
0:57.0 | Don't ask me how an ocean god and a snake-haired gorgon can have a flying horse baby, but that's their story and nobody questions it. |
1:04.0 | Some say Pegasus was born from the blood of Medusa when Perseus cut off her head. |
1:11.5 | But I know you like the romantic version better. Yes I do. Anyway, |
1:18.2 | Pegasus spent his early horse years in the care of the great goddess Athena who actually gave him over to the muses of Mount |
1:25.6 | Helican for safekeeping. He lived his days there happily, roaming the fields, chomping on delicious grasseses and doing this amazing trick where he could |
1:34.9 | stamp his hoof and create a fresh stream of water out of the ground. |
1:39.0 | There are at least two famous springs in Greece that were supposedly created this way. |
1:43.0 | Both of these springs are named Hippocrine, which means horse spring, |
1:49.0 | and many believed that drinking from them would inspire you and fill your mind with amazing ideas. |
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