Greeking Out from National Geographic Kids

Oh Muses! Two complicated succession struggles are in this episode of this children's podcast. We encounter the beginning of a hero, bogus claims to the throne, falling into the sea, old women stuck in mud, murder in a temple, twins, and succession ancient Greek style.

Oh Muses! Dionysus has new shenanigans for us to observe. We encounter the art of shape-shifting, the grizzly death of many greedy pirates, an abandoned princess, and big cats.

Oh Muses! Centaurs had a bad rap, but Chiron was the best of them all. In this episode we encounter impressive cloud impersonations, really rude wedding guests, poisoned arrows, wild behavior, and lots of animal legs.

Oh Muses! A new Oracle is born as Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series, steps in while the Oracle of wifi is on vacation. In this episode we encounter moons, beautiful people, extremely questionable courting practices and inappropriate reactions to having a crush including kidnapping, transforming your crush into a herd animal, transforming yourself into a herd animal, and memorializing them through astronomy.

Graffiti! Ham Clocks! Fish Guts! These are just a few of the topics we’ll explore with today’s guest, Tim Huddlestone…sorry, Tom Hiddleston, in this special bonus episode as we dig into what the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the preservation of Pompeii reveal about life as an ancient Roman in the first century C.E.

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