2:52:26THE GREEK GODS: The Entire Story (All the Best Myths)
Two hours and fifty two minutes of Greek mythology told straight through by the British actor David Rintoul, in twelve numbered parts, one god at a time: Zeus, Hera, Apollo and Artemis, Athena, Poseidon, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Ares, Hermes, Dionysus, Demeter and Hades. Every god gets an introduction explaining what they actually governed and how the Greeks worshipped them, then the famous myths that show what that power did to people. Europa on the white bull, Io and the hundred eyed guard, Niobe turned to weeping stone, Daphne turned to laurel, Arachne beaten into a spider, Narcissus at the pool, Psyche in the underworld, Midas and his golden daughter, Persephone and the pomegranate seeds, and Orpheus turning around one step too soon. It is also quietly an etymology lesson, tracing narcissist, echo, arachnid, panic, hygiene and tantalize, plus Europe, the Bosphorus and three constellations, back to a single story each.