We start with a soft foundation--  when it comes to most of the mythology we’ll explore together, we talk about the classic deities of the Greek pantheon, the twelve Olympians: Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hermes and Hestia or Dionysus. If you’re a disciple of Roman mythology, you may know these same gods by their names as Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Ceres, Minerva, Apollo, Diana, Mars, Venus, Vulcan, Mercury, and Vesta or Bacchus. I like to stick to the Greek interpretations, so we will mostly be using Greek names here.

The Olympians were the third or fourth generation of immortal beings--  before they could reign supreme, they had to defeat the Giants and the Titans, which sounds more like an epic MLB match up than historical lore, the latter of which was a ten year long war of gods lead by Zeus.  The core Olympians are siblings and the children of the Titans Cronus and Rhea (who were born of Uranus and Gaia): Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Hades and Demeter and Hestia. Then there are the principal offspring of Zeus: Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aprhodite, Hephaestus, Hermes and Dionysus. 

If this family tree feels incestuous and confusing, lol, just wait.

We also cover Michelangelo's fresco "The Last Judgment" (he makes Charon look hot!), Persephone and Hades staying faithful against all odds, Zeus as divinely evil and perpetually horny, and how easily Hades punk'd Peirithous and Theseus into sitting down on the Chair of Forgetfulness.