The Complete Story of Zeus: How the Storm God Became King of Olympus | Greek Mythology for Sleep

A slow, quiet retelling of the life of Zeus, made for falling asleep to.The life of Zeus, told from the very beginning and at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.It starts with a baby hidden in a cave on Crete, kept alive by a goat while his father searched for him. Cronus swallowing his own children one by one. Rhea handing over a stone wrapped in cloth. Then the ten-year war against the Titans, the Cyclopes forging the first thunderbolt in the dark, and three brothers drawing lots to divide the sky, the sea and the underworld between them.After that we stay with him through the rest of it. Typhon rising out of the earth. Metis swallowed whole and Athena born from a headache. The long, difficult marriage to Hera. Prometheus chained to a rock for giving fire away. The flood that almost ended people before they'd properly begun.All of it read in a low, even voice, with no music, no sudden sounds, and no reason to stay awake for the next part. If you drift off during the Titanomachy and wake up somewhere near Olympus, you've used this correctly. Most people don't make it past the first half hour, and the story 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 the old stories, made for the hours when you can't sleep. New episodes every day.