What happens when the Muses of Greek mythology want to have a podcast... but they don't actually want to do the work of making one? They conscript a demigod, of course!
In the inaugural episode of Myths and Muses: A Plato Learning Podcast, we start at the very beginning: origin stories and myths of creation!
Whether it's stories of how the whole world and all the gods came to be, or stories with a smaller focus, like the creation of a particular flower, origin stories can tell us a lot about a culture. They're also Origin something we humans seem to find endlessly fascinating – at least if all the Batman and Wolverine movies are anything to go by! We'll look at a few examples, then dive into the origins of storytelling itself.
This episode's interview features Persephone and her mortal alter-ego, Plato Learning founder Crystal Bobb-Semple!
If you'd like to submit a story or artwork to be featured on Myths & Muses, use this form (with a Mortal Guardian's permission!).
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Cave painting: Chauvet Cave, France. 30,000 to 28,000 BCE.
Cave Painting: Serra da Capivara, Brazil. 28,000 to 6,000 BCE.
Cave Painting: Cumberland Valley Caves, Tennessee, U.S. Dated to: 4,000 BCE.
Cave Painting: Cueva de las Manos, Argentina. 7,300 BCE to 700 CE.
Cave Painting: Lubang Jeriji Saléh, Indonesia. More than 40,000 years old.
Cuneiform tablet, Shuruppak, circa 2600 BCE
Egyptian hieroglyphs, c. 3000 BCE:
Oracle Bone Script, China, c. 1250 BCE:
Maya codices, c. 900-1500 CE:
