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The Reddest Red & the Brightest Sun with Matthew Stillman | S7 Ep17
OUR STORY
Nobody believes Phaeton's claim to divine heritage: Helios, the sun god, is his father. The boy sets out on a quest to find his dad, and when they're finally united, Helios promises to fulfill one wish. Phaeton asks to drive the chariot of the sun for a day. It all ends in fire, ruin, and a geomyth.
OUR CONVERSATION
Matthew opens with Z.R. Ghani's poem "The Reddest Red." Full text of poem.
Ovid's telling of Helios and Phaeton as a geomyth, a story that may preserve the memory of a real meteor that streaked over Greece centuries before it was ever written down
How myth takes time: a…
The skinny
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