Tales of the Night Sky

When Bibi gets stuck writing the Prometheus episode, she calls her good friend Morag. Together will they find a way through? This episode concludes Season 3 and includes extracts from Ovid and Aeschylus, some chit-chat and a beautiful poem by Morag Cross. 
Sound by Geoff Chong.
Production by Geoff Chong & Bibi Jacob.
The Ovid extract is from Metamorphoses 1.76–88 in a translation by A.S. Kline
The Prometheus Unbound extract, translated by Smythe, appears in Cicero's Tusculan Disputations (Book 2, Section 10.23-25) not one of his speeches!
Stelliferous' Heracles post: https://rebelstargazer.substack.com/p/hercules
My article on writer's block: https://buymeacoffee.com/talesofthenightsky/what-blocking-writer

When Heracles accidentally wounds Chiron with an arrow dipped in the Hydra's blood, the immortal centaur must fight the spreading poison. As fever takes hold, time collapses, pulling him into visions of the past and a future filled with war and death.
Written by Morag Cross.
Directed by Bibi Jacob.
Featuring:
Gordon Peaston as Chiron.
Doug Rand as Heracles.
Morag Cross as Narrator and Okyrrhoe.
Tercelin Kirtley as Peleus.
Tom Morton as Achilles.
Felix and Albert Giddingstone as Young Achilles.
Original compositions written and performed by Chloe Dunn. Listen to Chloe's single Aphrodite Leaves.
Outro theme, soundcapes and  production by Geoff Chong.
Sources for this episode include: The Mithras Liturgy, a greek papyrus of magic healing spells; Philostratus the Elder Imagines 2.2 ; Homer's Iliad, Book XI; Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 6; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, Book 4; Eratosthenes; Hyginus; Ovid Metamorphoses, Book 2.
Thanks to Cicely and Frog.
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A iynx is a bird or a spinning love charm. But before that Iynx was an Arcadian nymph, seeking revenge…
Written and narrated by Bibi Jacob.
Original music composed and performed by Chloe Dunn.
Sound and production by Geoff Chong.
Listen to Chloe's EP Blossom on Spotify
Check out our post about Iynx on Buymeacoffee: buymeacoffee.com/talesofthenightsky/iynx
Sources for this episode: Pindar's, Pythian Ode 4; Sarah Iles Johnston, The Song of the Iynx: Magic and Rhetoric in Pythian 4; Theocritus, Idyll 2.
Thumbnail image - Gold ear ornament - The Trustees of the British Museum

When Phaëthon, son of Helios and the nymph Clymene, seeks out proof that his father is divine, it precipitates his tragic end.
 
Narrated by Bibi Jacob.
Sound and production by Geoff Chong.
Check out Bibi's substack: @mythhead
https://buymeacoffee.com/mythhead
Find out more about the constellation Eridanus here: https://rebelstargazer.substack.com/p/eridanus-the-river

The Argonauts have arrived in Colchis, the Golden Fleece is within their reach. But Jason will need the help of the goddess Aphrodite and the sorceress, Medea, to face the challenges ahead. And that help will come at a price.
*Sensitive listeners beware - some of this episode is gruesome!*
Written and directed by Bibi Jacob.
Sound and production by Geoff Chong.
Original compositions written and performed by Chloe Dunn - with Louis appearing as Eros. 
Featuring:
Tom Morton as Aeëtes,
Chloe Dunn as Aphrodite,
Tercelin Kirtley as Orpheus,
Ciaran Cresswell as Jason,
Rose Romain as Medea.
Sources for this episode include: Apollonius' 'Argonautica', 'The Orphic Argonautica', Euripides' 'Medea', Seneca's 'Medea', Pinder's 4th Pythian. 
The extract from Euripide's 'Medea' is in a translation by Ian Johnston, Vancouver Island University.