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Nov 1, 2026
Tristan HughesHOST
Their mysterious writing remained undeciphered until the 1950s.
Tristan HughesHOST
They built citadels from boulders so big that the ancient Greeks thought the giant Cyclops must have made them.
Tristan HughesHOST
Thanks to Homer's epic, the Iliad, their leader Agamemnon became a legend.
Tristan HughesHOST
But was he real? Who were these Mycenaeans? Where did they come from? And why did they disappear? Today, I'm pleased to welcome Dr.
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Steve KershawGUEST
And they are mightily impressive.
Steve KershawGUEST
So the Cyclopean walls, the stones are so huge and so beautifully cut as well that the later Greeks just couldn't believe that mere mortals could do it.
Steve KershawGUEST
They had to be made by Cyclops.
Steve KershawGUEST
Only a mythical monster could produce this kind of thing, these huge, beautifully cut and trimmed stones.
Addison AndersonNARRATOR
In Greek art and literature, they were depicted as daring and desirable, but also terrifying and deadly, and doomed to die at the hands of Greek heroes.
Addison AndersonNARRATOR
Were Amazons merely figures of myth, or something more? It was long assumed that they were imaginary like the Cyclops and Centaurs, but curiously enough, stories from ancient Egypt, Persia, the Middle East, Central Asia, India, and China also featured Amazon-like warrior women.
Addison AndersonNARRATOR
And Amazons were described in ancient historical accounts, not just myths.
Addison AndersonNARRATOR
Writers like Herodotus, Plato, and Strabo never doubted their existence.
Reuven SteinHOST
He's a one-eyed monster, you know.
Reuven SteinHOST
Cyclops.
Reuven SteinHOST
Cyclops, yeah.
Reuven SteinHOST
Maybe that would be absurd.
Reuven SteinHOST
Yeah, maybe.
Nikkiana JonesHOST
dark ones or light ones and they're yeah so I mean like we were dealing with some really crazy entities here because I mean even when Og is about to get killed by Moses he like he insults him by like being like oh you and your insect sized gods you know
Andrew McKenzieGUEST
yeah which that's exactly it's very much like in the Odyssey when they come across this what they call the Cyclops which is a giant And in one part of the conversation, the protagonist is sort of appealing to Zeus.
Andrew McKenzieGUEST
And the giant says, what use have I for your stupid little God? My God, Poseidon, is much bigger and much more powerful than your stupid little God.
Andrew McKenzieGUEST
Very similar kind of conversation.
Jenny BlankenshipNARRATOR
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The Odyssey for Boys and Girls by Alfred John Church Chapter 1 The Cyclops
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A great many years ago
Jenny BlankenshipNARRATOR
there was a very famous siege of a city called Troy.
Jenny BlankenshipNARRATOR
It was very hard on Ulysses.
Jenny BlankenshipNARRATOR
He was close to home, if he could only have stopped, but he could not, and though he saw it again soon after, he was ten years before he reached it, having gone through many adventures in the meantime.
Jenny BlankenshipNARRATOR
The first of these was in the country of the Cyclops, or Round-Eyed People.
Jenny BlankenshipNARRATOR
Late on a certain day Ulysses came with his ships to an island, and found in it a beautiful harbor, with a stream falling into it, and a flat beach on which to draw up the ships.
Sophie BlonkleHOST
Right.
Sophie BlonkleHOST
And that's another thing I push back on is I think lots of people really love to hone in on and focus on the sequence of events that starts with the Cyclops and ends with the Scylla and Charybdis and the Sirens.
Sophie BlonkleHOST
When you think about the Odyssey and you talk to anyone just on the street about the Odyssey, those are the scenes they know about.
Sophie BlonkleHOST
And it makes sense because those events really capture our imagination.
Sophie BlonkleHOST
There's something about the encounter with the Cyclops and those subsequent events that are kind of part of the sea voyage that are just really striking.
Sophie BlonkleHOST
But those events are not more important than the return of the King narrative.
Sophie BlonkleHOST
And I would actually, this is kind of a hot take.
Sophie BlonkleHOST
I kind of think Nolan should have condensed those events, the Cyclops and the sirens and all that, into something more like a montage.
James RojasHOST
That'd be great.
James RojasHOST
Or the Cyclops.
James RojasHOST
I could see somebody doing like a naked man Cyclops.
Jamie BlancoHOST
Zendaya's character Athena.
Jamie BlancoHOST
Yeah.
Ben RockHOST
It's the first seven minutes.
Ben RockHOST
I'll see what they do when we get to the Trojan horse or, you know, the Cyclops or whatever.
Ben RockHOST
Like, I'll watch that.
Ben RockHOST
I'll be interested to see what far superior thing he thinks he's done being the richest man in the world.
Dillon BurkeGUEST
That's the bit of the game I'd actually like to run myself.
Dillon BurkeGUEST
And you go on a quest, maybe you get a nice reward, steal a lightning bolt from the Cyclops, or Or you make Hera angry and you and your family and every cow you own gets cursed for eternity.
PatrickHOST
Right.
PatrickHOST
Contrasting outcomes there.
Eric AllenGUEST
They really love it.
Eric AllenGUEST
They got that Cyclops to move its eye.
Eric AllenGUEST
What you did with the low budget in 1979 or whatever was just different than what you do with the low budget in
Joe DrillingGUEST
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