In this episode, an actual Greek myth gets retconned as Myth Takes, our miniseries on comics and mythology, rolls on with a discussion of three stories from the Sandman collection Fables & Reflections—specifically, Thermidor, The Song of Orpheus and Ramadan!
You may be familiar with the myth of Orpheus, the balladeer who journeyed to the underworld to retrieve his lady love Eurydice. But you might have skipped class the day they covered the fact that Orpheus was the son of Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams!
Did Orpheus’s bodiless head really help bring about the downfall of Robespierre, one of the architects of the French Revolution’s bloody Reign of Terror? What role did the Dream King play in the storied history of ancient Baghdad? And will these stories make their way into that campaign of myth-information known as … The Comics Canon?
Discussed in This Episode:
- Content warning for The Song of Orpheus
- Destruction vs. the other Endless
- The Sandman stories August and Soft Places
- I, Claudius (and I, Podius)
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- Elric Vol. 1: Elric of Melnibone
- Ron Randall’s Trekker: Reckoning on Rigel on Kickstarter
Join us in two weeks as our Myth Takes miniseries wraps up with a discussion of James Sturm’s The Golem’s Mighty Swing!
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