Season One, Episode Three – The Initiation of Hesiod

In this episode, the Traveller of Myths takes us to Mount Helicon, where Hesiod—humble shepherd of Ascra—claimed to be not merely inspired by the Muses but initiated by them into poetry itself.

Through laurel sceptres, divine voices, and biting words that humbled before they elevated, we explore Hesiod’s transformation from shepherd to poet, the difference between Homer’s invocation and Hesiod’s plea, and what it means to be “initiated” into truth.

Along the way: Delphic maxims, counterfeit coins, Acusilaus, Palamas, and even the “Delian swimmer” Socrates… all with the Traveller’s usual irony, quarrels, and warnings not to trust the “mad monkeys” of history too much.

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