Troy Story: Orestes LIVES
5/31/202421 min
Oh Muses! The royal family of Mycenae works on their coping skills in this episode. We encounter intergenerational trauma, three-to-four murders, two attempted murders, and heists!
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First 90 secondsKenny Curtis· Host0:00
The stories featured in Greeking Out are original adaptations of classic Greek myths. This week's story features intergenerational trauma, three to four murders, two attempted murders, and heists.
Speaker 10:11
Greeking out the greatest stories in history were told in Greek mythology. Greeking out gods and heroes, amazing feats. Listen and you'll see it's Greeking out.
Kenny Curtis· Host0:27
We're back this episode with the conclusion of the story of Iphigenia and her siblings, Electra and Orestes. And we are following the hero of the story, Orestes, although I, I guess he's not exactly the hero because, well, he did murder someone, and there are definitely no role models here. Uh, let's just call him the main character of the story, okay? So we're following our main character, Orestes, as he is trying to regain his throne through a feat of daring suggested by the god Apollo. He has to steal the statue of Artemis from a temple. Now, since Apollo was the one to get Orestes into this situation in the first place, I'm not sure why he is so confident in the god's judgment, but here we are. We revisit our story where Orestes, son of Agamemnon, arrives in Tauris, where the sacred statue of Artemis is located.
Tori Kerr· Co-host1:24
Also in Tauris is Orestes' long lost sister,