Ethiopian and Out with the Snake King
6/7/202421 min
Oh Muses! Snake kings and werecreatures await in the Ancient civilization of Aksum - modern day Ethiopia and Eritrea. In this episode we encounter common poisonous flowers, distractable birds, trade routes, early hominid skeletons, and an ancient empire.
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First 90 secondsKenny Curtis· Host0:00
The stories featured in Greeking Out are usually original adaptations of classic Greek myths. This week's story features common poisonous flowers, distractible birds, trade routes, early hominid skeletons, and an ancient empire.
Speaker 10:13
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Kenny Curtis· Host0:29
Welcome back to Greeking Out. Today we're going on a field trip to a brand-new place, Ethiopia. Yeah, we're Ethiopian-out in- Ethiopianin' Out. If- Okay, I, I can't think of a good pun. Anyway, we're actually headed to the ancient kingdom of Axum, which comprises both Ethiopia and Eritrea, and is not exactly new to the ancient Greek world. We've talked about folks from this region before. Andromeda was debatably from this area, and so was Memnon, a great king we talked about during the Trojan War. The ancient Greeks were connected with the people of ancient Axum through trade routes that went all the way to the Indian Ocean.
Tori Kerr· Co-host1:12
There is evidence that Roman merchants traveled to India carried by Ethiopian ships. Some people in ancient Axum may have worshiped Greek gods.
Kenny Curtis· Host1:27
Right. So this civilization was known