Athena: The Complete Story of the Goddess Born from Zeus’s Head | Greek Mythology for Sleep

A slow, quiet retelling of the life of Athena, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the goddess who was born fully grown, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.She arrived in the strangest way any of them did, and she never quite stopped being her father's favourite because of it. What follows is the goddess of wisdom and of war, which are not usually the same thing, and the long list of people she chose to stand behind. There's a contest over a city that still carries her name. There are heroes who only survived their stories because she decided they should. There's a mortal woman who was better at something than a god, and what that cost her. Athena rarely lost her temper, and the few times she did are the parts everyone remembers.But the point of this recording isn't really the story. It's the hour or two spent drifting through it. The voice stays low and even the whole way through. No music, no sound effects, nothing that rises or drops or suddenly arrives. Every sentence is built to sit at roughly the same level as the one before it, so nothing ever pulls your attention back up to the surface.That's what makes it work on the nights when your head won't switch off. It's just interesting enough to give your thoughts something to hold, and slow enough that they let go of it on their own. You don't have to follow along. You don't have to remember any of it in the morning. If you drift off somewhere around the beginning and wake up much later, in the middle of a story you've missed the start of, you've used this exactly the way it's meant to be used. 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 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.