A Short Message From JeffAnd so, my faithful travelling companions through all 23 hours of Trojan War: The Podcast, our journey together continues. Odyssey: The Podcast picks up the story arc exactly where Trojan War: The Podcast left off. W

EPISODE 1 “THE APPLE OF DISCORD”

Sep 5th, 2016 49m 15s

ODYSSEY: THE PODCAST - my 14 episode, 24 hour sequel to Trojan War: The Podcast - is now recorded and waiting for you. Subscribe through your usual podcast provider, or go to odysseythepodcast.com!THE STORY: (40 minutes) Zeus, King of the God

EPISODE 2 “THE TORCH”

Sep 4th, 2016 1h 10m

THE STORY: (54 minutes) A queen is visited by a terrifying nightmare. Priests discern what the nightmare means. And a king is faced with a soul-wrenching dilemma: “do I kill my child, or allow my city to burn?” And the king’s decision …? Well,

EPISODE 3 “THE BIRTH OF ACHILLES”

Sep 3rd, 2016 54m 26s

THE STORY: (38 minutes) A miraculous child survives not only the homicidal raging of an angry demi-god, but also an icy immersion in a magic river and the venomous bite of a deadly snake. Then the child turns two, and his real adventures begi

Episode 4 “THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS”

Sep 2nd, 2016 44m 47s

THE STORY: (30 minutes) Hermes, the messenger god, locates a “highly qualified” judge for a beauty contest between three powerful, vain and vindictive goddesses. One of the goddesses is cruising to what appears to be certain victory, until h

EPISODE 5 “SPARTA”

Sep 1st, 2016 44m 7s

THE STORY: (30 minutes) The transition from shepherd to Crown Prince of Troy isn’t easy, but with some help from Aphrodite (and from the royal harem), Paris manages to settle in to Troy quite nicely. A road trip to the the Greek kingdom of S

EPISODE 6 “HELEN OF SPARTA”

Aug 30th, 2016 1h 3m

THE STORY: (37 minutes) This episode has it all! A kinky story about an amorous swan, a disturbing story about a butchered horse, a cautionary story about a foolish husband, and a too-familiar story about a corrupt politician. And in the m

EPISODE 7 “THE MAD KING”

Aug 30th, 2016 1h

THE STORY: (43 minutes) Operation Trojan Storm needs the craft and cunning of Odysseus, Greece’s most clever man. But Odysseus has mysteriously vanished. Agamemnon puts his best man, Palamedes, on the case. “Find Odysseus; bring him to me

EPISODE 8 “FINDING ACHILLES”

Aug 29th, 2016 1h 4m

THE STORY: (49 minutes) Agamemnon doesn’t dare launch his invasion of Troy until Achilles - Greece’s very own “weapon of mass destruction” – is part of the operation. So Odysseus, the cleverest of the warlords, is dispatched to find the elu

EPISODE 9 “IPHIGENIA”

Aug 28th, 2016 1h 1m

THE STORY: (45 minutes) In this horrifying episode Agamemnon, Commander in Chief of the Greek’s Operation Trojan Storm, is confronted with an existential question. How badly does he want to invade Troy, and who or what is he willing to sacrific

EPISODE 10 “BEACHHEAD”

Aug 27th, 2016 1h 22m

THE STORY: (53 minutes) Agamemnon’s 100,000-strong army finally makes it to the beaches of Troy, and readies itself for one day of glorious, decisive, "winner-take-all" battle against Hector’s Trojan army. But the Trojans appear to have oth

EPISODE 11 “ACHILLES DISHONORED”

Aug 26th, 2016 1h 2m

THE STORY: (46 minutes) Ten years into the siege of Troy a priest of Apollo arrives at the command tent of Agamemnon, Commander in Chief of the Greeks. The priest makes a simple request of Agamemnon. Agamemnon refuses, and Greek soldiers di

EPISODE 12 “PARIS: PRINCE OF TROY”

Aug 25th, 2016 1h 9m

THE STORY: (58 minutes) Hector proposes an audacious “exit strategy” to Agamemnon: a deal to end the war with just one man dead. Intense diplomatic negotiations follow. And just when it appears that Greek and Trojan have agreed to terms, a

EPISODE 13 “TERRIBLE, GLORIOUS WAR”

Aug 24th, 2016 1h 14m

THE STORY: (56 minutes) As Greek and Trojan forces openly clash on the plains of Troy the goddess Athena imbues a Greek warlord – Diomedes – with fearsome, godlike powers of combat. So with the Trojan forces in disarray and on the verge of

EPISODE 14 “DEADLY DESTINY”

Aug 23rd, 2016 1h 17m

THE STORY: (57 minutes) This episode, pivotal to the entire Trojan War Epic, features philosophy, bedroom farce, and genuine tragedy -- all in equal measure. Temptation plays the lead: Agamemnon tempts Achilles; Hera tempts Zeus; and Patroclu

EPISODE 15 “THE WRATH OF ACHILLES”

Aug 22nd, 2016 1h 30m

THE STORY (65 minutes) Homer’s Iliad opens with the storyteller’s invocation to the Muse: “The wrath of Achilles – sing it now, goddess, sing through me ….” When Achilles learns that his beloved Patroclus is dead – at the hands of Hector –A

EPISODE 16 “PRIAM”

Aug 21st, 2016 1h 9m

THE STORY (50 minutes) This episode traces the personal griefs of two bitter enemies: Achilles, who has lost his best friend and soul mate, Patroclus; and King Priam, who has lost his son and his heir, Hector. Both Achilles and Priam are in

EPISODE 17 “ACHILLES’ HEEL”

Aug 20th, 2016 1h 14m

THE STORY (59 minutes) With Hector dead, the desperate Trojans grasp on to increasingly ridiculous deus ex machina solutions to save their city from the Greeks. And then old King Priam hatches the most hair-brained (or brilliant) scheme of

EPISODE 18 “ODYSSEUS ASCENDANT”

Aug 19th, 2016 1h 14m

THE STORY (50:00 minutes) A dispute over honour leads to a leadership shift (and a profound tragedy) in the Greek army. Meanwhile, Paris Prince of Troy discovers that “nemesis” is a word of particularly Greek origin.THE COMMENTARY THE