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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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5. Persephone Part II - You Do Something To Me
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! … Persephone has been assigned the story of a victim, but bears none of the hallmarks. Why has this magnificent Queen been reduced to a Page 3 girl? 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 Will be added in a few hours Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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3b. BONUS - The Making of Podyssey
Naomi Smith gets the behind the scenes skinny on Podyssey from Alex Andreou. Where did the idea come from? What's coming up in Season 2? What is the most surprising fact so far? Lots of exclusive access, previews, and exclusive announcements. … 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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4. Persephone Part I - If You Can't Be Free, Be A Mystery
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! … Persephone has been assigned the story of a victim, but bears none of the hallmarks. Why has this magnificent Queen been reduced to a Page 3 girl? 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 - YOUTUBE. “Kori” (Acoustic) Marianna Sangita - YOUTUBE “Kori” (Album Version) ON - YOUTUBE Camille Saint-Saëns “Danse Macabre”, Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra - ARCHIVE Claudio Monteverdi “Addio Roma” from L’Incoronazione di Poppea - ARCHIVE Antonio Vivaldi “Autumn” from The four Seasons - ARCHIVE Heitor Villa Lobos “Bachianas Brasileiras No.5”, Bidu Sayao - ARCHIVE Giacomo Puccini “Flower Duet” from Madama Butterfly, Renata Tebaldi/Nell Ranking - ARCHIVE Francesco Sacrati “E dove t’aggirli” from Proserpina, Victoria de los Angeles - YOUTUBE “Sobbin’ Women” from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Howard Keel - ARCHIVE Francesco Cilea “Esser madre e un inferno” from L’Arlesiana, Ebe Stignani - ARCHIVE “Am I blue” Ethel Waters - YOUTUBE Amilcare Ponchielli “Oh Madre Mia” Act I finale from La Gioconda, Maria Callas/Maria Amadini - ARCHIVE WA Mozart “Lacrimosa” from Requiem, Eugen Jochum - ARCHIVE Kurt Weill “September Song”, Sarah Vaughan - ARCHIVE FILM “The Goddess of Spring” (1934) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zvnAypUSJs Children of Men (2006) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/ Lady Bird (2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4925292/ Terms of Endearment (1983) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086425/ Steel Magnolias (1989) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098384/ ARTWORK Two examples of a Melian amphoras, with Kore figure, c. 6thC BCE here and here. “Hades Abducting Persephone” fresco Vergina 4C BCE “Statue of Isis-Persephone holding a sistrum” marble statue Gortyn 180-190 CE “Head of Persephone” earthenware Centuripae, c.420 BCE “Bronze statuette of a female votary with pomegranate” 4th–3rd century BCE “Persephone and Hades” red-figure kylix Vulci, c. 440-430 BCE “The abduction of Persephone by Hades” terracotta hydria c. 340–330 BCE “Persephone on the Throne” terracotta tablet Locri, 470 BCE “Enthroned Deity” (probably Persephone) Taranto, c. 480-470 BCE Bernini Gian Lorenzo “Rape of Proserpine” Peter Paul Rubens “The Rape of Proserpine” Luca Giordano “The Abduction of Proserpina” Maxfield Parrish “Proserpina and the Sea Nymphs” Hiram Powers “Proserpine” Dante Gabriel Rossetti eighth and final version of “Proserpine” READING Taffy Brodesser-Akner “Let’s Go to Jerusalem for Soup Again” Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, Marian Villancico Edna St Vincent Millay “Prayer to Persephone” Rita Dove “Canary” Rita Dove “The Bistro Styx” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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3. King Midas - All That Glitters
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! … When was it - and why? - that the cautionary tale of King Midas, a myth about the absurdity of excess, the consequences of greed and spectacularly bad judgment, magically transformed into an aspirational example of success? When did we elevate him from lowly figure of fun to a gold penthouse and the Oval Office? 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 MOZART - A Musical Joke - Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet - PRIVATE COLLECTION GRIEG - Peer Gynt Suite No.1 “In the Hall of the Mountain King” - Eugene Ormandy - PRIVATE COLLECTION BERLIN - After you get what you want you don’t want it - Marilyn Monroe - YOUTUBE ROSSINI - Il Barbiere di Siviglia “Largo al factotum” - Rolando Panerai - YOUTUBE BORODIN/WRIGHT - Kismet “Baubles, Bangles, and Beeds” - Ann Blyth - PRIVATE COLLECTION BERLIN - Call Me Madam “The Money Song” - Dinah Shore - YOUTUBE MENOTTI - Amahl And The Night Visitors “All that gold” - Rosemary Kuhlmann - PRIVATE COLLECTION STRAUSS - Die Liebe der Danae - 1952 Broadcast - PRIVATE COLLECTION PUCCINI - Manon Lescaut “In quelle trine” - Renata Tebaldi - PRIVATE COLLECTION BERNSTEIN - Candide “Glitter and be gay” - Roberta Peters - YOUTUBE BACH - "Geschwinde, Geschwinde, Ihr Wirbelnden Winde", BWV 201 - PRIVATE COLLECTION GOUNOD - Faust “Le veau d’or” - Nicolai Ghiaurov - Public Television - YOUTUBE All that glitters is not gold - Mildred Bailey - YOUTUBE FILM Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1672218/ Wall Street (1987) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094291/ The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993846/ Goodfellas (1990) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685/ Scarface (1983) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086250/ Big (1988) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094737/ Trading Places (1983) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086465/ Limitless (2011) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219289/ Avengers: Infinity War (2018) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154756/ Goldfinger (1964) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058150/ ARTWORK Silenus riding a donkey The Judgment of Midas by Nicolas Mignard, 1667. King Midas Judging the Musical Contest between Apollo and Pan, by Filippo Lauri, c1650-1694 LIFE magazine Goldfinger cover. Images of Ancient Gordion Midas Gate in Anatolia Map of Ancient Anatolia Electrum coins Gold Croeseid Andy Warhol - Dollar Signs “Siren” by Marc Quinn (2008) “America” by Maurizio Cattelan (2016) “Madonna and child” by Sandro Boticelli (1480-81) “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” by Gustav Klimt (1907) Ceiling Paintings by Gustav Klimt (1894) Gold Death Mask (Tomb V, Mycenae) Meowdas (fortnite) READING Proust “Mensonges” dedication “King Midas” by Howard Moss “Mrs. Midas” by Carol Ann Duffy Essay on Gold and Melancholy John Lyly’s "King Midas" “The Reading Mother” by Strickland Gillilan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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