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

This week's story features bees, bees and cows, kidnapped bees, animal carcasses,

revenge birds, epic poetry, dancing, and of course, hubris.

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Welcome back to another episode of Grecing out.

Today's show is all about some of the minor gods in Greek mythology.

And by minor, we don't mean less important, we just mean the gods that you might not have heard all that much about.

Our earlier Who's Who on Mount Olympus episode showcased some of the bigger and more prominent gods in Greek mythology.

This episode is focused on the gods you might not know about,

but are still important, nonetheless.

Exactly. And to kick things off, we're talking about every artist's favorite group of goddesses,

the Muses the Muses were deities that provided artists with the

inspiration they needed to create. Yep and they definitely played a big role in getting some of these mythology

stories composed. Homer actually begins his famous poem, The Odyssey, by asking the

muses for guidance. They really took it seriously.

You don't want to upset a muse, especially if you are an artist.

Yeah, I heard that. Back in the day, many plays and poems and other artistic ventures

started with asking the muses for a blessing. That's why our episode descriptions

always start with oh muses. It's not for the algorithm that's for sure algorithm is it's a

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