A gold-tipped arrow, a gilded casket, a snake-tailed child and two drops of the gorgon’s blood.

The goddess Athena narrates her tale of love and power.

Starring Sharon Mann as Athena

With Dario Costa as Hephaestus and Homer, Morag Cross as Daughter 2 and Bibi Jacob as Erichthonius and Daughter 1

Written and directed by Bibi Jacob. Production and sound design by Geoff Chong

Special thanks to Christine Hooper and to Jean-Paul Palmyre
Recorded at Studio Quali’sons, Paris (Morag Cross recorded in London)

Quote from Martin Hammond’s translation of Homer’s Iliad (4.17)