Epics
26 min
The Odyssey: The Man Who Turned Down Immortality
He was offered eternal life. He just wanted to go home.
Odysseus was offered eternal life, pleasure, oblivion, and a kingdom. He said no to all of it. A 3,000-year-old story about a man who wanted nothing more than to sit at his own table again, and what that stubbornness cost him and everyone he loved.
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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.