Greek Mythology's Titanic Beginnings: Theogony, Part 1

This week, the podcast gets a new format. Every other week will be a story from mythology, while the weeks in between will be Patron-only episodes where I break down the history and context of the myths.

The myth this week is the most-complete version of the ancient Greek myth of the creation of the world, as told in Hesiod's Theogony. Since the episode threatened to be quite long, I have broken it into two parts, with this first part recounting the birth of the world and the first generations of gods, Hesiod going on a long tangent about Hekate, and finally the birth of Zeus. Along the way, we get a look at the sheer amount of assaults that happen in Greek myth.

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