Greek Heroes in Eight Stand Alone Lives

You know the names. Heracles, Theseus, Jason, Orpheus. What you have never had is the whole life of any of them, start to finish, told as a story you can simply listen to without a family tree in your other hand.

This collection gives eight Greek heroes one complete chapter each. Perseus, Heracles, Theseus, Jason, Atalanta, Bellerophon, Orpheus and Oedipus are followed from birth to their last act, scene by scene, with dialogue written in the spirit of the myth and gods who meddle from Olympus for reasons of their own. Every person who walks into a scene is introduced on the spot. The lesser-known episodes sit alongside the famous deeds, the tone shifts with each hero so a comic quest follows a tragedy, and the dark material is told honestly and with care. A short thread in each chapter explains what that hero meant to the Greeks and why the story still holds.

Press play, pick any hero, and hear the full life behind the name.