Metamorphoses: a Retelling of Ovid's Tales
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Reading the Metamorphoses: Book 3 Lines 337-731
30 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a reading of the second half of Book 3 of the Metamorphoses. The translation is by Brookes More and is available via the Creative Commons At...
Reading the Metamorphoses: Book 3 Lines 1-336
11 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a reading of the first half of Book 3 of the Metamorphoses. The translation is by Brookes More and is available via the Creative Commons Att...
Book 3 Episode 4: Pentheus's Cousin is Not a God
27 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We're back! After a long time, I finally found the time to write, record and edit an episode. It's about Pentheus, another one of the Thebes...
Book 3 Episode 3: Narcissism at Its Finest
18 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode Narcissus arrives! Echo falls deeply in love and then he does. Hint: they're both in love with the same person. Audio quality might ...
Book 3 Episode 2: Deer Actaeon and Slightly Vaporized Semele
04 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Things are not going well for the house of Cadmus. His grandson meets an unfortunate fate and his daughter meets Jupiter (and Juno). You can imagine h...
Book 3 Episode 1: Cadmus, the Dragon, and the Teeth-People
07 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Europa's brother Cadmus takes over the story with a heroic tale about dragons and teeth becoming people. CW/TW: suggested rape. Twitter: @Metamo...
Reading the Metamorphoses: Book 2 Lines 401-875
24 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I read a translation of the Metamorphoses. This time, the second half of Book 2. The translation is by Brookes More and is available via the Creativ...
Reading the Metamorphoses: Book 2 Lines 1-400
10 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I read a translation of the Metamorphoses. This time, the first half of Book 2. The translation is by Brookes More and is available via the Creative...
Book 2 Episode 5: Stop Turning People to Stone, You're not Medusa
26 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week Mercury continues his adventures in turning people to stone and a certain princess gets kidnapped by a bull. CW/TW: suicide mention. Twitte...
Book 2 Episode 4: Snitches Get Stitches
12 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode a raven gets a colour change, a princess gets turned into a crow and another girl gets turned into an owl. Many birds here! Oh, and Apoll...
Reading the Metamorphoses: Book 1 Lines 416-778
29 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I read a translation of the Metamorphoses. This time, the second half of Book 1. The translation is by Brookes More and is available via the Creat...
Reading the Metamorphoses: Book 1 Lines 1-415
15 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode I try a new episode format! I read a translation of the Metamorphoses. This time, the first half of Book 1. The translation is by Brookes...
Book 2 Episode 3: At Least You Become a Constellation, Callisto
01 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode, a lot of people grieve for Phaethon and some turn into other things. Also, Jupiter finds a lovely girl, called Callisto, and things pred...
Book 2 Episode 2: Literally Everything Goes Wrong
17 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode Phaethon goes on a trip and things go, predictably, wrong. Things are on fire. Twitter: @MetamorphosesK Tumblr: key-metamorphoses We...
Book 2 Episode 1: Phaethon, Please Don't
03 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode of the second book, Phaethon finds his father and asks for an interesting gift. Maybe it would be better he asked for something ...
Book 1 Episode 6: Io's Mooooving Through Some Fields
20 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode I tell the story of Io, who has an unfortunate encounter with Jupiter. Embedded in this is the story of Pan and Syrinx. I end with the be...
Book 1 Episode 5: Apollo Hugs a Tree (Creepily)
06 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode we look at the story of Apollo killing Python, a huge snake. Also, Apollo insults Cupid and is as punishment shot with a love arrow and f...
Book 1 Episode 4: Out with the Old, and In with the New... Humans
20 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode we see how Jupiter and the other gods destroy all humans, except two. These two, Deucalion and Pyrrha, wander the empty earth and try t...
Book 1 Episode 3: Humans are Terrible Little Creatures
06 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Metamorphoses we look into the creation of humans, from the golden age, where humans are created by Prometheus, to the iron age, where...
Book 1 Episode 2: The First Metamorphosis?
23 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this second episode we discuss the beginning and creation of everything. The heavens, earth and seas are created through a sort of metamorphosis, t...
Book 1 Episode 1: Prologue and Prologue
09 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode of Metamorphoses I explain the premise of the podcast and take a first dive into the prologue of Ovid's Metamorphoses.Websi...