When Heracles accidentally wounds Chiron with an arrow dipped in the Hydra's blood, the immortal centaur must fight the spreading poison. As fever takes hold, time collapses, pulling him into visions of the past and a future filled with war and death.

Written by Morag Cross.
Directed by Bibi Jacob.

Featuring:
Gordon Peaston as Chiron.
Doug Rand as Heracles.
Morag Cross as Narrator and Okyrrhoe.
Tercelin Kirtley as Peleus.
Tom Morton as Achilles.
Felix and Albert Giddingstone as Young Achilles.

Original compositions written and performed by Chloe Dunn. Listen to Chloe's single Aphrodite Leaves.

Outro theme, soundcapes and production by Geoff Chong.

Sources for this episode include: The Mithras Liturgy, a greek papyrus of magic healing spells; Philostratus the Elder Imagines 2.2 ; Homer's Iliad, Book XI; Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 6; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, Book 4; Eratosthenes; Hyginus; Ovid Metamorphoses, Book 2.

Thanks to Cicely and Frog.

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A iynx is a bird or a spinning love charm. But before that Iynx was an Arcadian nymph, seeking revenge…

Written and narrated by Bibi Jacob.
Original music composed and performed by Chloe Dunn.
Sound and production by Geoff Chong.

Listen to Chloe's EP Blossom on Spotify

Check out our post about Iynx on Buymeacoffee: buymeacoffee.com/mythhead/iynx

Sources for this episode: Pindar's, Pythian Ode 4; Sarah Iles Johnston, The Song of the Iynx: Magic and Rhetoric in Pythian 4; Theocritus, Idyll 2.

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When Phaëthon, son of Helios and the nymph Clymene, seeks out proof that his father is divine, it precipitates his tragic end.

Narrated by Bibi Jacob.

Sound and production by Geoff Chong.

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Find out more about the constellation Eridanus here: https://rebelstargazer.substack.com/p/eridanus-the-river