Episodes

  • Medea

    Medea
    Jul 12 2026

    Betrayed by Jason's marriage to Creon's daughter and threatened with exile, Medea resolves a terrible revenge. She sends poisoned gifts that kill the bride and Creon, then—unable to allow her children to be used against her—kills her own sons.

    After committing these acts she escapes Corinth in a chariot granted by her divine lineage, leaving Jason ruined and the city shattered. The episode examines betrayal, wrath, and the tragic consequences of vengeance.
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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • Hippolytus

    Hippolytus
    Jul 5 2026
    A proud young prince devoted to Artemis rejects love and scorns the power of Aphrodite. In revenge, the goddess kindles a forbidden passion in his stepmother, Phaedra, setting in motion one of Greek tragedy’s cruelest chains of misunderstanding. In this episode, we explore Euripides’ Hippolytus—a haunting drama of chastity, desire, divine vengeance, and the heartbreaking reconciliation between a father and his dying son.
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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • Hymn to Apollo

    Hymn to Apollo
    Jun 20 2026
    In this episode, we turn from tragedy to one of the oldest surviving works of Greek literature: the Homeric Hymn to Apollo. We follow the god’s remarkable rise from his miraculous birth on the island of Delos to his conquest of the monstrous Python at Delphi. Along the way, Apollo establishes his great oracle, claims his sacred sanctuary, and gathers the first priests who will serve him. More than a simple hymn of praise, the poem reveals how the Greeks understood divine power, prophecy, music, and the founding of sacred places. It is the story of a young god announcing himself to the world—and ensuring that mortals will hear his voice for generations to come.
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    27 mins
  • The Kindly Ones

    The Kindly Ones
    Jun 13 2026
    Orestes, pursued by the Furies for murdering his mother, flees to Athens where he is tried at the Areopagus.
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    55 mins
  • Oedipus the King

    Oedipus the King
    Jun 1 2026
    Oedipus ran away from his home in Corinth to avoid the prophecy which foretold he would kill his father and marry his mother. After answering the riddle of the Sphynx, he was made King of Thebes, and charged with hunting down the killer of the former King. As Oedipus begins to examine the facts from the past, he slowly learns the horrifying truth that we often fulfill our destiny on the road we took to avoid it…
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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • Libation Bearers

    Libation Bearers
    May 30 2026
    Orestes returns from exile to avenge his father’s murder at the hands of his mother and her lover Aegisthus.
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    55 mins
  • The Bacchae

    The Bacchae
    May 17 2026
    The King of Thebes denies the divinity of Dionysus and persecutes the women of the city who have begun practicing the mystic rites of the god. In Euripides’ telling, Dionysus visits the city and its King to exact his revenge in horrifying detail.
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Agamemnon

    Agamemnon
    May 16 2026
    Agamemnon returns home from Troy. His wife Clytemnestra welcomes him home as a conquering hero, but secretly plans to kill him for sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia before he left for the war.
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    1 hr and 29 mins