Episode 11: The Olympian Gods

Welcome to another season of the Greek Myth Files, our third, which will run into the middle of 2021. This season’s theme will be “The Black Sea,” taking us away from the Greek world and into unknown or obscure places in the distant east. But before we talk about Amazons and Golden Fleeces, listeners have asked us to offer an overview of the Olympian gods and how the Greek and Roman names are related. These are the gods that the remaining episodes will feature along with the great Greek heroes as they travel around the world and meet new and often exotic others.

New this season will be visual aids, including maps and other nuggets, as well as original art by an outstanding student artist, Allina Podgurski, whose interpretations of the myths will grace these files as episode tiles. Scroll down and search for some clever allusions to myths associated with Apollo!

For this episode, we provide below a map of places referenced, as well as an image that shows the Greek and Roman equivalents for the Olympian gods.