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EP 30: Gods, Heroes & War
Garner's Greek Mythology - September 05, 2021 22:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratingsWelcome to Episode 30 where we survey ancient war and how it formed the Greek notion of the ideal hero. Thousands of years ago heroes were, without exception, brave young men. They expected to die young, valiantly and with the bodies of those they’d slain lying at their feet. In this episode w...
EP 29: Heracles, Greece's Superhero
Garner's Greek Mythology - August 12, 2021 20:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratingsWelcome to Episode 29 … Listen as we learn about the real Heracles, Greece’s indisputable superhero. A semi-divine being and the son of Zeus, Heracles experienced tragedies and triumphs. He never refused a challenge. In this episode we look at his 12 labors, his loves and his transformation f...
EP 29: Heracles - Greece's Superhero
Garner's Greek Mythology - August 12, 2021 20:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratingsWelcome to Episode 29 … Listen as we learn about the real Heracles, Greece’s indisputable superhero. A semi-divine being and the son of Zeus, Heracles experienced tragedies and triumphs. He never refused a challenge. In this episode we look at his 12 labors, his loves and his transformation f...
EP 28: The Proud, Audacious Amazons
Garner's Greek Mythology - August 01, 2021 20:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratingsWelcome to EPISODE 28 -- The Proud, Audacious Amazons The Amazons were sired by the war god, Ares. They reflected their parentage well. As fighting machines they were almost unstoppable. That is, until they confronted Greece's greatest heroes. In this episode we look at their life style -- an...
EP 27: The Dishonored Sky Gods
Garner's Greek Mythology - July 18, 2021 19:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratingsWelcome to EPISODE 27 -- The Dishonored Sky Gods Zeus did not have the sky to himself, and shared it with the sun god Helios, the moon goddess Selene, and others. This arrangement worked well until an even greater force than Zeus came on the scene. This episode tells the story of the sky gods ...
EP 26: The Three Helens
Garner's Greek Mythology - July 05, 2021 22:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratingsWelcome to Episode 26, THE THREE HELENS This episode features the story of Helen of Troy, also known as the woman whose "face launched a thousand ships.” She was beautiful, but ended up being a pawn of the gods in the Trojan War. The effort to rescue her actually changed Greek history by bein...
EP 25: You Tell Apollo He’s A Myth
Garner's Greek Mythology - June 28, 2021 21:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratingsEP 25: You Tell Apollo He’s A Myth … Welcome to Episode 25. This episode explores whether the gods are real or -- as scholars state -- myths. In this unique podcast we take a different approach, daring to examine whether we’ve all been misled. What if the Greek gods simply walked? What if the...
EP 24: Medusa and Perseus - Bad Hair Day
Garner's Greek Mythology - June 22, 2021 00:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratings… Welcome to Podcast 24. This episode excavates the story of Medusa. I say ‘excavate’ because today we think of Medusa as a monster whose glance could turn men to stone. But there’s much more to her story. It’s been buried. So first we shovel aside the stones and debris. What do we find? Befo...
EP 23: Demeter - Best Gift Ever
Garner's Greek Mythology - June 01, 2021 21:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratings... Welcome to Episode 23, DEMETER - BEST GIFT EVER The Greek gods do everything humans can do, but on a grander scale. When Demeter, the goddess of agriculture, gives bountiful harvests, all rejoice. How do you top that? When her kidnapped daughter is returned, the grateful goddess gives Gre...
EP 23: Demeter - Best Gift Ever!
Garner's Greek Mythology - June 01, 2021 21:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratings... Welcome to Episode 23, DEMETER - BEST GIFT EVER! The Greek gods do everything humans can do, but on a grander scale. When Demeter, the goddess of agriculture, gives bountiful harvests, all rejoice. How do you top that? When her kidnapped daughter is returned, the grateful goddess gives Gr...
EP 22: Satyrs and A Cyclopes
Garner's Greek Mythology - May 23, 2021 20:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratings... Welcome to Episode 22, SATYRS & A CYCLOPES You’ve probably heard of satyrs, but not thought beyond their strange appearance. They are the combination of 4 or 5 animals, including humans. The big difference between satyrs and humans, though, is in their approach toward life. In this episod...
EP 22: Satyrs & A Cyclopes
Garner's Greek Mythology - May 23, 2021 20:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratings... Welcome to Episode 22, SATYRS & A CYCLOPES You’ve probably heard of satyrs, but not thought beyond their strange appearance. They are the combination of 4 or 5 animals, including humans. The big difference between satyrs and humans, though, is in their approach toward life. In this episod...
EP 22: Satyrs and A Cyclopes
Garner's Greek Mythology - May 23, 2021 20:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratings... Welcome to Episode 22, SATYRS & A CYCLOPES You’ve probably heard of satyrs, but not thought beyond their strange appearance. They are the combination of 4 or 5 animals, including humans. The big difference between satyrs and humans, though, is in their approach toward life. In this episod...
EP 21: Oedipus and the Sphinx
Garner's Greek Mythology - May 03, 2021 23:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratings... Welcome to Episode 21, Oedipus & the Sphinx.. This episode features the story of Oedipus, an extraordinarily tragic figure in Greek mythology who tries to do his best, but is bested by the Fates. He meets the Sphinx—not the Egyptian version but the divine sphinx that terrified the Greek...
EP 20: Bonus Chapter from HOMO DIVINITAS
Garner's Greek Mythology - April 24, 2021 16:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratingsNew stories about the gods! Homo Divinitas, by podcaster Patrick Garner, is now available on Amazon as an audible book! ... Welcome to Episode 20. We’re taking a short break from our usual episodes to hear Chapter 1 of the audible book, Homo Divinitas. It has the same Greek gods you love, bu...
EP 20: Bonus Chapter 1 from HOMO DIVINITAS
Garner's Greek Mythology - April 24, 2021 16:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratingsNew stories about the gods! Homo Divinitas, by podcaster Patrick Garner, is now available on Amazon as an audible book! ... Welcome to Episode 20. We’re taking a short break from our usual episodes to hear Chapter 1 of the upcoming audible book, Homo Divinitas. It has the same Greek gods you...
EP 19: Medea - She Did It All For Love
Garner's Greek Mythology - April 12, 2021 00:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratings... Welcome to Episode 19. This episode focuses on a woman who was, perhaps, the most powerful in all of Greece. The daughter of the sun god, Helios, Medea was a sorceress and the infamous wife of Jason, the hero and leader of the Argonauts … Medea was really the mastermind of all of Jason’s ...
EP 18: The Fates & The Furies - A Horror Show
Garner's Greek Mythology - April 04, 2021 00:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratings... Welcome to Episode 18. Here we open Pandora’s Box, and inside, to our horror, we find ... the Fates and the Furies. All divine, the Three Fates and the Three Furies were daughters of the ancient being Nyx, who was herself the daughter of Chaos … The Fates presided at every birth, determini...
EP 17: Nymphs - Between Gods & Mortals
Garner's Greek Mythology - March 22, 2021 21:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratings... Welcome to Episode 17. In this podcast we enter the extraordinary world of nymphs. These semi-divine beings were young girls who populated and protected every waterway, spring and sacred grove. They were not deathless, but could live for centuries, and were found throughout Greece, Sicily...
EP 17: Between Gods & Mortals
Garner's Greek Mythology - March 22, 2021 21:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratingsWelcome to Episode 17 … In this podcast we enter the extraordinary world of nymphs. These semi-divine beings were young girls who populated and protected every waterway, spring and sacred grove. They were not deathless, but could live for centuries, and were found throughout Greece, Sicily, Cre...
EP 16: Circe - Herbs, Spells & Murder
Garner's Greek Mythology - March 08, 2021 02:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratings... Welcome to Episode 16, where we linger on the mysterious island of Aeaea with the goddess Circe. She trafficked in herbs and magical spells, and became infamous for turning sailors who stumbled onto her beaches into wolves, and wolves into swine, and swine into snakes … Circe’s lasting fa...
EP 15: Eleusinian Mysteries - The Only Way To Save Your Butt
Garner's Greek Mythology - February 21, 2021 19:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratings... Welcome to Episode 15, where we travel back to Athens in our mythology time machine for one grand purpose: We seek to experience the famous Eleusinian Mysteries. The Mysteries were a must-attend, life-or-death ritual. Those who successfully participated were assured a pleasant afterlife. ...
EP 14: DIONYSOS (Rockstar God)
Garner's Greek Mythology - February 12, 2021 01:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratingsWelcome to Episode 14 where we look at the adventures — and the strangely modern travails — of the wine-god, Dionysos, whom the Romans called Bacchus. An ancient being, he was the exotic god of ecstasy and dance. The inventor of theater and wine, he was alternately celebrated and feared. Wherea...
EP 14: Dionysos - Rockstar God
Garner's Greek Mythology - February 12, 2021 01:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratings... Welcome to Episode 14 where we look at the adventures — and the strangely modern travails — of the wine-god, Dionysos, whom the Romans called Bacchus. An ancient being, he was the exotic god of ecstasy and dance. The inventor of theater and wine, he was alternately celebrated and feared. Wh...
EP 13: Hephaistos - Every God Has His Day
Garner's Greek Mythology - February 01, 2021 01:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratings... Welcome to Episode 13. How many of us know the god Hephaistos? You may think of him as Vulcan… but that's the Roman rebranding of the god who was known by the ancient Greeks as the fire-god. He was the god who turned his disability into a genius that wowed the gods and men alike. His seemin...
Ep 12: Hermes, Hera & Hestia - Heavens!
Garner's Greek Mythology - January 22, 2021 14:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratingsWelcome to Episode 12! We start with everybody's friend, the winged-foot god Hermes... He's the god of fertility and guide to the underworld… the patron god of thieves and dreams. Then we shift to the queen of the heavens, Hera, who was married to Zeus and takes the crown as the most vindictive...
Ep 12: Hermes, Hera & Hestia - H-H-Heavens!
Garner's Greek Mythology - January 22, 2021 14:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratings... Welcome to Episode 12. We start with everybody's friend, the winged-foot god Hermes... He's the god of fertility and guide to the underworld… the patron god of thieves and dreams. Then we shift to the queen of the heavens, Hera, who was married to Zeus and takes the crown as the most vindic...
Ep 12: Hermes, Hera & Hestia - H-H-H-Heavens!
Garner's Greek Mythology - January 22, 2021 14:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratings... Welcome to Episode 12. We start with everybody's friend, the winged-foot god Hermes... He's the god of fertility and guide to the underworld… the patron god of thieves and dreams. Then we shift to the queen of the heavens, Hera, who was married to Zeus and takes the crown as the most vindic...
Ep 11: Hekate & Ares (Be Very Afraid)
Garner's Greek Mythology - January 10, 2021 03:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratingsWelcome to Episode 11. Listen as we wander in the shadows of ancient crossroads with the goddess Hekate, the patron of today’s witches. She was as close a friend to Hades as she was to the divine huntress, Artemis. We finish the second half of the episode in the company of the god of war, the re...
Ep 11: Hekate & Ares - Be Very Afraid
Garner's Greek Mythology - January 10, 2021 03:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 76 ratings... Welcome to Episode11. Listen as we wander in the shadows of ancient crossroads with the goddess Hekate, the patron of today’s witches. She was as close a friend to Hades as she was to the divine huntress, Artemis. We finish the second half of the episode in the company of the god of war, the...
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