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8. AESOP II - A dolphin and a seagull were hurling insults at each other
*** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠ *** Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! … Last week we explored the complicated, and largely made-up, biography that is "The Aesop Romance". In this part I talk to experts to try and understand why it is that we need a "back story" for the creators of stories that we connect with, what is the difference between a reliable and unreliable narrator, how populism has refined the art of story-telling, and why only better stories - not better facts - can help us. Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC Podyssey Theme: “To Margoudi ki o Alexandris”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission) ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-LAVj5l9Uc⁠⁠ Rimsky-Korsakov: "Scheherazade; 2nd Movement"; Societe de Concerts Du Conservatoire, Ernest Ansermet 1955 https://archive.org/details/lp_scheherazade Bernice Parks: "You Intrigue Me" 1952 https://archive.org/details/78_you-intrigue-me_bernice-parks Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani "In alto mare... Coraggio!", Maria Callas 1951 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibMCTUPC_6g Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffman " O Dieu, de quelle ivresse" (reprise), Raoul Jobin 1950 https://archive.org/details/lp_the-tales-of-hoffman Anton Karas: The Third Man "Harry Lime Theme", Hermann Stachow 1950 https://archive.org/details/78_harry-limes-melodi Ravel: Shéhérazade "1. Asie", Suzanne Danco 1955 https://archive.org/details/lp_le-roi-david-sheherazade Mahalia Jackson: "MyStory" 1953 https://archive.org/details/78_my-story_mahalia-jackson Verdi: Il Trovatore "Condotta all'era", Cloe Elmo 1941 https://archive.org/details/cloe-elmo-giuseppe-verdi Rossini: La Cenerentola "Questo e un nodo avviluppato", Glyndebourne Company 1955 https://archive.org/details/lp_la-cenerentola_gioacchino-rossini FILM - Coming Soon ARTWORKS - Coming Soon SOURCES - Coming Soon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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7. AESOP I - Virtue Signaller or Fake News Merchant?
*** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠ *** Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! … Stories have had a moral, for as long as we have told stories. This week, Aesop; A crowd-sourced literary celebrity. What is the fact and what is the fiction? And why it matters. Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC Podyssey Theme: “To Margoudi ki o Alexandris”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission) ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-LAVj5l9Uc⁠ César Cui: "Orientale"; Capitol Symphony Orch, Carmen Dragon 1958 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDx-kRbXoCU Xiomara Alfaro: "Angelitos Negros" 1957 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_9XyHOHiLw Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Winifred Atwell 1957 https://archive.org/details/lp_winifred-atwell-plays-gershwin_winifred-atwell-ted-heath-and-his-music/disc1/01.01.+Rhapsody+In+Blue.mp3 Charlie Gore: "Absolutely Free", 1953 https://archive.org/details/78_absolutely-free_charlie-gore-charlie-gore-gore-young_gbia0484950b Manos Hadjidakis: "The Myth", Christiana, 1960 https://archive.org/details/lp_ilios-thalassa.mp3 Richard Strauss: Dance of the Seven Veils from "Salome", Paul Paray, 1959 https://archive.org/details/lp_the-heart-of-the-opera_antal-dorati-paul-paray-detroit-symphony-o/disc1/02.01.+Dance+Of+The+Seven+Veils+From+%22Salome%22.mp3 Manouche: "Miri Louloudi", 1989 (with permission) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMtzBs5bSIE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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BONUS - No thing is just one thing
*** SUPPORT A SECOND SEASON ON ⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠ *** This week Alex gets to quiz the show's cultural historian, Dr Debbie Challis, starting with the obvious question: What the hell is a cultural historian? Listen to Debbie explain her complicated on-again-off-again love affair with the classical and the classic - but also Greece itself. And her battle to be heard without being labelled and filed away - something which every contributor to this podcast seems to share; a compulsion to explore not just our allotted piece of the puzzle, but how the pieces connect. _________________ The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other. Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! _____________ Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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6. Cassandra - Everything Must Be Said Again
*** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other. Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! … There is an elegant symmetry to Cassandra being misunderstood - still, millennia later - as a symbol for pessimism. A prophet of doom. But that wasn’t her curse at all. Her curse was to have true insight and yet be unable to get those around her to listen. And is the reason we prioritise some voices over others not the central, existential question at a time when real knowledge struggles to make itself heard over a chorus of populism? What wooden horses have we let through our cities’ gates? Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC Oluf Dimitri Røe: “Fajum” ON YOUTUBE Aldo Ciccolini: Erik Satie “Gnossiennes No.1 FROM ARCHIVE Lulu Belle: “Never take ‘no’ for an answer” FROM ARCHIVE ON ft Marianna Sangita: “Et Glimt” ON YOUTUBE Risë Stevens: Bizet; Carmen “Card Scene” FROM ARCHIVE Betty Lou Allen: J.S.C. Bach; Cassandra Cantata FROM ARCHIVE Fedora Barbieri: Verdi; Un Ballo in Maschera “Re dell’abisso” FROM ARCHIVE Marisa Ferrer & Charles Cambon: Berlioz; Les Troyens "Reviens a toi, vierge adorée” FROM ARCHIVE Anna Maria Alberghetti: “They didn’t believe me” FROM ARCHIVE FILM Helen of Troy 1956 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049301/ Scream 2 1997 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120082/ The Matrix 1999 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/ The Eyes of Laura Mars 1978 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077530/ Doctor Sleep 2019 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5606664/ Nightmare Alley 2021 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7740496/ Agamemnon 1983 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UyouI7BUsI Promising Young Woman 2020 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9620292/ Kaos 2024 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8550732/ Don't Look Up 2021 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11286314/ ART Attic Red cup with the taking of Cassandra Terracotta amphora with the taking of Cassandra Evelyn de Morgan's Cassandra Pompeii mosaic of Ajax dragging Cassandra from Palladium. Solomon J. Solomon's Ajax & Cassandra Ronsard's "Avant le temps tes tempes fleuriront" Louise Bogan's "Cassandra" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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BONUS - Archaeology: The Art of Interpreting Science
*** SUPPORT A SECOND SEASON ON KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY *** This week we meet the show's archaeologist, Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, and talk about her profession: What it used to be, what it is now, and what it isn't. The romantic ideas of it and how far they are from the practical reality... And why nothing can substitute being in a place, touching, smelling, hearing, and feeling the context of what is unearthed from below. _________________ The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other. Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! _____________ Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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