Explore every episode of the podcast Metamorphoses: a Retelling of Ovid's Tales
| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading the Metamorphoses: Book 3 Lines 337-731 | 30 avr. 2022 | 00:25:52 | |
This is a reading of the second half of Book 3 of the Metamorphoses. The translation is by Brookes More and is available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. CW/TW: suicide. | |||
| Reading the Metamorphoses: Book 3 Lines 1-336 | 11 déc. 2021 | 00:19:47 | |
This is a reading of the first half of Book 3 of the Metamorphoses. The translation is by Brookes More and is available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. CW/TW: suggested rape. | |||
| Book 3 Episode 4: Pentheus's Cousin is Not a God | 27 nov. 2021 | 00:11:05 | |
We're back! After a long time, I finally found the time to write, record and edit an episode. It's about Pentheus, another one of the Thebes crew. His cousin might have just become a god, and Pentheus does not like this. | |||
| Book 3 Episode 3: Narcissism at Its Finest | 18 sept. 2021 | 00:12:25 | |
This episode Narcissus arrives! Echo falls deeply in love and then he does. Hint: they're both in love with the same person. Audio quality might be poorer than usual. I did not have much time to edit. CW/TW: Suicide. | |||
| Book 3 Episode 2: Deer Actaeon and Slightly Vaporized Semele | 04 sept. 2021 | 00:10:04 | |
Things are not going well for the house of Cadmus. His grandson meets an unfortunate fate and his daughter meets Jupiter (and Juno). You can imagine how this will go. | |||
| Book 3 Episode 1: Cadmus, the Dragon, and the Teeth-People | 07 août 2021 | 00:10:25 | |
Europa's brother Cadmus takes over the story with a heroic tale about dragons and teeth becoming people. CW/TW: suggested rape. | |||
| Reading the Metamorphoses: Book 2 Lines 401-875 | 24 juil. 2021 | 00:29:18 | |
I read a translation of the Metamorphoses. This time, the second half of Book 2. The translation is by Brookes More and is available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. | |||
| Reading the Metamorphoses: Book 2 Lines 1-400 | 10 juil. 2021 | 00:22:33 | |
I read a translation of the Metamorphoses. This time, the first half of Book 2. The translation is by Brookes More and is available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. | |||
| Book 2 Episode 5: Stop Turning People to Stone, You're not Medusa | 26 juin 2021 | 00:08:13 | |
This week Mercury continues his adventures in turning people to stone and a certain princess gets kidnapped by a bull. CW/TW: suicide mention. | |||
| Book 2 Episode 4: Snitches Get Stitches | 12 juin 2021 | 00:09:14 | |
This episode a raven gets a colour change, a princess gets turned into a crow and another girl gets turned into an owl. Many birds here! Oh, and Apollo gets slightly mad at his lover, but they still have a child. And Mercury steals some cows. CW/TW: attempted assault. | |||
| Reading the Metamorphoses: Book 1 Lines 416-778 | 29 mai 2021 | 00:21:31 | |
I read a translation of the Metamorphoses. This time, the second half of Book 1. The translation is by Brookes More and is available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. | |||
| Reading the Metamorphoses: Book 1 Lines 1-415 | 15 mai 2021 | 00:22:13 | |
This episode I try a new episode format! I read a translation of the Metamorphoses. This time, the first half of Book 1. The translation is by Brookes More and is available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. | |||
| Book 2 Episode 3: At Least You Become a Constellation, Callisto | 01 mai 2021 | 00:12:30 | |
This episode, a lot of people grieve for Phaethon and some turn into other things. Also, Jupiter finds a lovely girl, called Callisto, and things predictably goes wrong for her. CW/TW: rape. | |||
| Book 2 Episode 2: Literally Everything Goes Wrong | 17 avr. 2021 | 00:11:15 | |
This episode Phaethon goes on a trip and things go, predictably, wrong. Things are on fire. | |||
| Book 2 Episode 1: Phaethon, Please Don't | 03 avr. 2021 | 00:10:52 | |
In this first episode of the second book, Phaethon finds his father and asks for an interesting gift. Maybe it would be better he asked for something else. | |||
| Book 1 Episode 6: Io's Mooooving Through Some Fields | 20 mars 2021 | 00:15:30 | |
This episode I tell the story of Io, who has an unfortunate encounter with Jupiter. Embedded in this is the story of Pan and Syrinx. I end with the beginning of Phaethon's myth. CW/TW: rape, attempted assault, harassment. | |||
| Book 1 Episode 5: Apollo Hugs a Tree (Creepily) | 06 mars 2021 | 00:10:10 | |
This episode we look at the story of Apollo killing Python, a huge snake. Also, Apollo insults Cupid and is as punishment shot with a love arrow and falls in love with Daphne. CW/TW: attempted sexual assault, harrassment. | |||
| Book 1 Episode 4: Out with the Old, and In with the New... Humans | 20 févr. 2021 | 00:10:20 | |
This episode we see how Jupiter and the other gods destroy all humans, except two. These two, Deucalion and Pyrrha, wander the empty earth and try to restore the human race. | |||
| Book 1 Episode 3: Humans are Terrible Little Creatures | 06 févr. 2021 | 00:10:08 | |
This episode of Metamorphoses we look into the creation of humans, from the golden age, where humans are created by Prometheus, to the iron age, where humans are terrible beings. also, the giants attack. The story of Lycaon makes the gods make an important decision. | |||
| Book 1 Episode 2: The First Metamorphosis? | 23 janv. 2021 | 00:11:01 | |
In this second episode we discuss the beginning and creation of everything. The heavens, earth and seas are created through a sort of metamorphosis, the first one of this podcast and of Ovid's Metamorphoses. | |||
| Book 1 Episode 1: Prologue and Prologue | 09 janv. 2021 | 00:07:10 | |
In this first episode of Metamorphoses I explain the premise of the podcast and take a first dive into the prologue of Ovid's Metamorphoses. | |||