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King Midas - All that glitters
The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other. Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! … When was it - and why? - that the cautionary tale of King Midas, a myth about the absurdity of excess, the consequences of greed and spectacularly bad judgment, magically transformed into an aspirational example of success? When did we elevate him from lowly figure of fun to a gold penthouse and the Oval Office? Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC MOZART - A Musical Joke - Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet - PRIVATE COLLECTION GRIEG - Peer Gynt Suite No.1 “In the Hall of the Mountain King” - Eugene Ormandy - PRIVATE COLLECTION BERLIN - After you get what you want you don’t want it - Marilyn Monroe - YOUTUBE ROSSINI - Il Barbiere di Siviglia “Largo al factotum” - Rolando Panerai - YOUTUBE BORODIN/WRIGHT - Kismet “Baubles, Bangles, and Beeds” - Ann Blyth - PRIVATE COLLECTION BERLIN - Call Me Madam “The Money Song” - Dinah Shore - YOUTUBE MENOTTI - Amahl And The Night Visitors “All that gold” - Rosemary Kuhlmann - PRIVATE COLLECTION STRAUSS - Die Liebe der Danae - 1952 Broadcast - PRIVATE COLLECTION PUCCINI - Manon Lescaut “In quelle trine” - Renata Tebaldi - PRIVATE COLLECTION BERNSTEIN - Candide “Glitter and be gay” - Roberta Peters - YOUTUBE BACH - "Geschwinde, Geschwinde, Ihr Wirbelnden Winde", BWV 201 - PRIVATE COLLECTION GOUNOD - Faust “Le veau d’or” - Nicolai Ghiaurov - Public Television - YOUTUBE All that glitters is not gold - Mildred Bailey - YOUTUBE FILM Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1672218/ Wall Street (1987) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094291/ The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993846/ Goodfellas (1990) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685/ Scarface (1983) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086250/ Big (1988) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094737/ Trading Places (1983) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086465/ Limitless (2011) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219289/ Avengers: Infinity War (2018) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154756/ Goldfinger (1964) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058150/ ARTWORK Silenus riding a donkey The Judgment of Midas by Nicolas Mignard, 1667. King Midas Judging the Musical Contest between Apollo and Pan, by Filippo Lauri, c1650-1694 LIFE magazine Goldfinger cover. Images of Ancient Gordion Midas Gate in Anatolia Map of Ancient Anatolia Electrum coins Gold Croeseid Andy Warhol - Dollar Signs “Siren” by Marc Quinn (2008) “America” by Maurizio Cattelan (2016) “Madonna and child” by Sandro Boticelli (1480-81) “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” by Gustav Klimt (1907) Ceiling Paintings by Gustav Klimt (1894) Gold Death Mask (Tomb V, Mycenae) Meowdas (fortnite) READING Proust “Mensonges” dedication “King Midas” by Howard Moss “Mrs. Midas” by Carol Ann Duffy Essay on Gold and Melancholy John Lyly’s "King Midas" “The Reading Mother” by Strickland Gillilan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Orpheus - Epic Hero or Drama Queen?
The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other. Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! … Orpheus and his lyre. Orpheus and Euridice. Orpheus and the Argonauts. Orpheus in the Underworld. Orpheus and his lament. Orpheus and his pain. Orpheus, Orpheus, Orpheus. The quintessential suffering artist. The shining example of love’s triumph over even death. Or maybe just a performative, entitled, 'singer-songwriter' nepo-baby . Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC Roy Henderson - Orpheus with his lute - PRIVATE COLLECTION Reinhold Glière - Harp Concerto In B Flat Major, Op. 4, Larghetto - on YOUTUBE Salli Terri & Laurindo Almeida - Black is the color - on SPOTIFY Oluf Dimitri Røe - Sabouna of Mykonos - on SPOTIFY Elena Polonska - Ciaccona - on YOUTUBE Monteverdi - L’Orfeo “Tu sei morta” Enrico de Franceschi (Orfeo) - PRIVATE COLLECTION Glück - Orfeo e Euridice “Ché faró senza Euridice” Nan Merriman (Orfeo) - Telephone Hour TV ARCHIVE Pedro Infante - Soy Infeliz - on SPOTIFY Marianna Sangita & Oluf Dimitri Røe - Lafina (The Doe) - on SPOTIFY Korngold - Die Tote Stadt “Glück das mir verblieb” Ilona Steingruber & Anton Dermota - on YOUTUBE Billie Holiday - “I’ll be seeing you” - on SPOTIFY FILM Coco (2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2380307/ Orphée (1950) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041719/ Orfeu Negru (1959) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/ Inception (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/ The English Patient (1996) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116209/ Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101452/ Chinatown (1974) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071315/ Apocalypse Now (1979) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/ Contact (1997) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/ What Dreams May Come (1998) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120889/ Pet Sematary (2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0837563/ Weekend at Bernie’s (1989) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098627/ Death becomes her (1992) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104070/ Vertigo (1958) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/ Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8613070/ Fitzcarraldo (1982) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083946/ ARTWORK Orpheus embracing his lyre by Unknown Red figure vase depicting the head of Orpheus by Unknown here and here. More about red-figure pottery Examples of Orpheus charming the animals here, here, here, here, here, and here. An example of Orphic Christ “Nymphs finding the head of Orpheus” by Waterhouse “Thracian Girl carrying the Head of Orpheus on his Lyre” by Moreau “Euridice dying” by Lebœf “Orpheus leading Euridice from the Underworld” by Cortot Vergil’s version of the Orpheus myth More about the Derveni Papyrus Reiner Maria Rilke’s “Sonnets to Orpheus” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Narcissus & Echo - The Influencer & The Follower
The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other. Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! … Most of what you think you know about the story of Narcissus, is wrong. This isn’t a story of conceit or vanity. It isn’t even the story of one person. It is a story of unrequited love and pain, of the corruption of innocence, of losing oneself. Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith and Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC Carly Simon - “You’re so vain” - LIVE on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZmCJUSC6g Marianna Sangita - “Glaros” - LIVE on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIGrYHF7jLA The Clerks of Christ Church - “Slow, slow fresh fount” - on SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/track/61kkAfQYSZQIhw46FDLe49 Joan Sutherland - Gounod FAUST “Jewel Song” - on SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/track/348lGUh1TA8t0T2Kpe0Qkm Maria Callas - Meyerbeer DINORAH “Shadow Song” - on SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/track/1QhZtlXHBuFUwn4splxosj Joni Mitchell - “Both sides now” - on SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/track/1pjATX7sbd6Y4jMVqIvzHk Clara Rockmore - Saint-Saëns “The Swan” - LIVE on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdFSU8sn3mo Róisín Murphy - “Narcissus” - OFFICIAL on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88p6AwgZNaw Ann Blyth & Lorenzo Lamas - Friml ROSE-MARIE “Indian Love Call” - on SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/track/3Fd9Ti1AFjvEyK67Sv8U7Y FILM The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134119/ Snow White (1937) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029583/ All About Eve (1950) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/ The Shape of Water (2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5580390/ The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037988/ Black Swan (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0947798/ Ingrid Goes West (2017) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5962210/ ARTWORK “Narcissus” by Caravaggio https://www.caravaggio.org/narcissus.jsp “Metamorphosis of Narcissus” by Salvador Dalí https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dali-metamorphosis-of-narcissus-t02343 “The Nymph Echo” by Max Ernst https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79316 Narcissus Fresco in Pompeii by Anon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_%28mythology%29#/media/File:Narcissus_on_a_Pompeian_fresco.jpg “Echo and Narcissus” by John William Waterhouse https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/echo-and-narcissus “Narcissus” by Follower of Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/follower-of-giovanni-antonio-boltraffio-narcissus "Mr. O'Wilde, You are not the first one that has grasped at a Shadow" by Thomas Nast https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/820022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Coming soon: Podyssey, Greek myths through a modern lens
Introducing Podyssey with Alex Andreou Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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