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27 min
King Arthur: The Myth That Built a Nation
The less real Arthur became, the more powerful he got
The historical Arthur — if he existed — was probably a 5th-century military leader fighting Saxons. In the fifteen centuries since, he has been systematically reinvented: as a medieval king of chivalry, a Tudor legitimiser, a Victorian moral exemplar. No myth in Western history has been more deliberately weaponised for political purposes.
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About Mythio
One story, one sitting.
Mythio is a library of audio documentaries on the ideas, people, and events that shaped the world. Each episode is researched across the best sources, fact-checked, and told in full. Most run twenty to thirty minutes, long enough to go deep, short enough to finish in one sitting.