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Greek to Me

Animated Greek myths, one moment at a time: the version everyone knows, and the thing the Greeks actually said that the retellings dropped.

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Greek to Me in black capitals on terracotta pottery sherds over a sunny Greek island beach, with three paper theatre masks on sticks, a soaked boy with feathered wings, an amphora and two elderly islanders at a cafe table, and a small A 21x20 Media Series chip

One myth. One moment. One thing the Greeks actually said.

Every episode opens in the middle of a Greek myth's most famous moment and sets it straight with something the Greeks themselves wrote that the retellings left out. A dry narrator tells it, the hero answers back, and a chorus of three paper masks pops up with opinions. Paper collage in the colours of a Greek vase: terracotta, black, cream and a little gold.

Meet the chorus

  • The Chorus

    Three paper theatre masks on sticks: Tragedy, Comedy and Astonishment. They rise from the bottom of the frame, speak as one, and have never once been asked.

  • The Narrator

    Dry, precise, and amused by the facts. Has read the original Greek and would like you to know it.

Episodes

  1. Episode 1Icarus1 minute, 9 seconds
  2. Episode 2Icarus, in His Own Words1 minute, 10 seconds
  3. Episode 3Pandora1 minute, 3 seconds
  4. Episode 4Atlas1 minute, 11 seconds
  5. Episode 5The Sirens1 minute, 8 seconds
  6. Episode 6Seven Years with Calypso1 minute, 10 seconds
  7. Episode 7King Midas Never Turned His Daughter to Gold1 minute, 8 seconds
  8. Episode 8Medusa Was the Victim1 minute, 10 seconds
  9. Episode 9Cerberus Didn't Always Have Three Heads56 seconds
  10. Episode 10The Trojan Horse Isn’t in the Iliad54 seconds
  11. Episode 11Artemis’s Boot Crew57 seconds
  12. Episode 12The Hesperides were not always Atlas's daughters.52 seconds