In this episode, we consider the rich myth of Atlas, the son of the Titan Iapetos, and the many myths and interpretation that surround him. The original tile art is by Beatrice Mattison—thanks, Beatrice!

A look at the famous myth of Daphne, the girl who turned into a tree

Typhoios, a god whose hands were like engines of war, / whose feet never gave out, from whose shoulders grew / the hundred heads of a frightful dragon / flickering dusky tongues, and the hollow eye sockets / in the eerie heads sent out fiery rays / and each head burned with flame as it glared. (from Hesiod’s Theogony)