8. AESOP II - A dolphin and a seagull were hurling insults at each other

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Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one
myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece,
take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence,
juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together
- all shiny and new!  …  Last week we explored the
complicated, and largely made-up, biography that is "The Aesop
Romance". In this part I talk to experts to try and understand why
it is that we need a "back story" for the creators of stories that
we connect with, what is the difference between a reliable and
unreliable narrator, how populism has refined the art of
story-telling, and why only better stories - not better facts - can
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Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis,
Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith &
Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou
For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES
MUSIC  Podyssey Theme: “To Margoudi ki o Alexandris”, Marianna
Sangita, 2018 (with permission)
⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-LAVj5l9Uc⁠⁠ Rimsky-Korsakov:
"Scheherazade; 2nd Movement"; Societe de Concerts Du Conservatoire,
Ernest Ansermet 1955 https://archive.org/details/lp_scheherazade
Bernice Parks: "You Intrigue Me" 1952
https://archive.org/details/78_you-intrigue-me_bernice-parks Verdi:
I Vespri Siciliani "In alto mare... Coraggio!", Maria Callas 1951
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibMCTUPC_6g Offenbach: Les Contes
d'Hoffman " O Dieu, de quelle ivresse" (reprise), Raoul Jobin 1950
https://archive.org/details/lp_the-tales-of-hoffman Anton Karas:
The Third Man "Harry Lime Theme", Hermann Stachow 1950
https://archive.org/details/78_harry-limes-melodi Ravel:
Shéhérazade "1. Asie", Suzanne Danco 1955
https://archive.org/details/lp_le-roi-david-sheherazade Mahalia
Jackson: "MyStory" 1953
https://archive.org/details/78_my-story_mahalia-jackson Verdi: Il
Trovatore "Condotta all'era", Cloe Elmo 1941
https://archive.org/details/cloe-elmo-giuseppe-verdi Rossini: La
Cenerentola "Questo e un nodo avviluppato", Glyndebourne Company
1955
https://archive.org/details/lp_la-cenerentola_gioacchino-rossini
ART Attic red-figure Kylix, circa 5C BCE, Vatican Museum. A sample
"Karagiozis" 19C folk shadow puppet figure, for comparison. Plaster
casts of the Hellenistic statue believed to be of Aesop, avec and
sans fig leaf. Aesopus (c. 1639-40), by Diego Velazquez. Chelsea
porcelain figure of Aesop as a black man, c.1755, and candlestick
depicting the fable of The Cockerel and The Jewel, c.1780,
Fitzwilliam Museum. Aesop Telling his Fables, by Johann Michael
Wittmer, 1855, Royal Collection. Illustration by Kawanabe Kyōsai
for the Japanese 1770 edition of "Aesop's Fables for All". FILM -
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