Tom Holland

People rescue the body, take it to Ecuador, up to Quito, and mummify it.

Yeah.

Maybe out there, Atahualpa's mummified body.

Maybe.

Lightly grilled is still there.

Who knows?

Well, dear listeners, if you like darkness and blood-stained drama, then wow, we've got a treat for you in the next episode.

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But for now, hasta luego.

It is one of my favourite subjects, the story of the Greeks and the siege of Troy and Odysseus' return home, of course.

I say Greeks, Homer called them the Achaeans, the Danaeans, the Argives.

The word Greeks is a much later one, but it refers really to the Mycenaeans, a warrior aristocracy, essentially, obsessed with

honour and reputation that would give them an eternal glory, a kleos, as they called it.

It's the kleos, it's in the name of so many Greeks, you know, Cleopatra and all the... I haven't worked that out, that's the same word.

Heracles, who's Hercules, you know, Hera's glory.

He was actually named Heracles because she hated him because he was a love child of Zeus and she never liked Zeus's love child, her husband, her errant husband.

And so as an attempt to placate her,

Tiresias, because he was born in Thebes, suggested that he change his name, as a baby this was, to Heracles, the glory of Hera.

It didn't help at all.