The Complete Story of Greek Mythology: From Creation to the Age of Heroes | Mythology for Sleep A slow, quiet journey through the whole of Greek mythology, from the first darkness to the last of the heroes, made for falling asleep to. This is the long one. Not a single story but the whole arrangement, in order, the way it was meant to be heard — because almost none of these myths make full sense on their own. The brother who drew the underworld makes more sense once you know what his father did to his own children. The Titan chained to the rock makes more sense once you know what the fire was for. So it starts at the beginning: a gap, a sky and an earth, and children who were pushed back down inside their mother. Then the first overthrow, and a king who ate his own sons to stop it happening again, and the ten-year war that put a new order on the mountain. From there the gods settle into their portions and start behaving like a family — the marriages, the quarrels, the contests over cities, the mortals who got too close. Then the world fills up with people, and the people start producing the second half of all this: the long voyages, the monsters, the labyrinths and golden fleeces and impossible labours, and eventually a war over one city that killed almost everyone worth naming. It ends roughly where the Greeks themselves thought the age of heroes ended, with the generation who had gods for parents gone, and ordinary history starting up in their place. Hours long, by design. There’s no part of it you have to be awake for. The recording itself is the usual thing. A low, even voice, no music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Slow enough that following along stops feeling necessary somewhere in the first twenty minutes. If you drift off during the creation and surface somewhere outside the walls of Troy, that’s the intended use. Most people don’t make it past the first half hour, and the rest will still be here tomorrow night. Put it on, turn the volume down, and let it go on without you. Mythology & Folklore for Sleep — long, calm retellings of Greek myths, Norse legends, Egyptian tales, Hindu epics, Chinese classics and old folklore from around the world, made for insomnia and the hours when you can’t sleep. Bedtime stories for adults, told in a slow, quiet voice. New episodes every day.
