Greek Gods and Human Mythtakes Podcast

19/12/2022

20/09/2022

He should have read the terms and conditions that the hot wife would also be kidnapped against her will 😂

06/09/2022

Sometimes I sit at home and wonder how many heads it took for Heracles to stop frantically slashing.

04/07/2022

Oh, to be a fly on the wall when Daedalus first realized what he was being asked to do…

19/06/2022

The fossil skulls of Pleistocene dwarf elephants scattered throughout the coastal caves in Italy and the Greek islands, most likely inspired the one-eyed Cyclopes in ancient Greek mythology.

During the Pleistocene ice age (2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago), land bridges emerged that allowed ancient elephants to move to emerging islands to escape predators and/or find new food sources. As sea levels began to rise around the Mediterranean, these ancient elephants became trapped and had to compete for limited amounts of food. According to the island rule, mammals tend to shrink or grow depending on the availability of resources in their environment.

The isolated ancient elephants evolved into different species depending on the island they found themselves on. The ones that were found on Cyprus were approximately 6 feet tall, nearly double the size than the ones found on Sicily and Malta. The ancient elephants lived in relative peace until humans found their way to the islands approximately 11,000 years ago. Within a century, they were over-hunted and became extinct.

By the time the Romans and Greeks came to occupy the Mediterranean islands, all that remained were skulls that were twice the size of those belonging to humans. These massive skulls also had a single hole right in the center that the Greeks and Romans mistakenly believed was an eye socket. It was in fact, a socket that was connected to the trunk of an ancient elephant.

Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23737187

17/06/2022

We are back!

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-y7xui-1252853

Dustin continue our retelling of the comedic genius Aristophanes', by retelling the comedy "The Birds", which centers around an Athenian's hairbrained scheme to use birds to destroy the Olympians. This play was so good it was deemed ILL EAGLE.

24/04/2022

He got a little side tracked…

One of my most epic commissions yet: Odysseus’ journey home 🌊💃🏻🐏🌿

Thanks to Dani and Isa for commissioning this map! It’s been a bucket list illustration for a while now ❤️

I’ll make a blog post about my research and everything soon! Where do you think Odysseus went? There’s also a theory the underworld was Iceland, how cool is that?!

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09/04/2022

In this episode we cover Dionysus’ journey from Aristophanes’ Ribbeting play, “The Frogs”

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-kmgtj-11f4a66

Aristophanes’ comedy “The Frogs” is a hilariously, absurd play which follows the ridiculous antics of Dionysus and his slave as they try to revive the greatest Athenian tragedians from the underworld. I guess you could call it a “ribbeting” play.

06/04/2022

This is exactly how I envisioned them

You asked for it...

13/03/2022

“Prometheus Bound”

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-8nrtj-11cec27

Prometheus, the champion of mankind, is bound to a mountain for giving us fire. But exactly WHY he was given this brutal punishment appears to have been an issue many ancient Greeks grappled with. In this episode we cover Aeschylus’ playwright “Prometheus Bound”— a completely new take on Pro...

12/03/2022

Bootysseus

08/03/2022

It’s a graveyard smash.

06/03/2022

It’s true, Diomedes is the best.

21/02/2022

And then somehow they get turned into a musical instrument… the cries of mortals become the music of the gods 😭

19/02/2022

I honestly can’t imagine what our podcast would even cover if Zeus wasn’t Zeus…