# 10. MEDUSA - Here's Looking at You, Kid

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Podcast: [Alex Andreou's Podyssey](https://stenobird.com/podcast/alex-andreou-s-podyssey-7235698)
Published: 2025-09-19T05:55:00+00:00
Episode link: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey
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*** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠ *** The myths, tales, and concepts of ancient Greece echo and reach into every aspect of modern life. Often misunderstood, frequently romanticised, and sometimes deliberately twisted - to understand their origins and truth is to get a real glimpse into the universal themes that connect us to the past and each other. Welcome to Podyssey with Alex Andreou. Each week we will take one myth, one concept, person, place, or theme from Ancient Greece, take it apart, figure out its inner workings, trace its influence, juice it for its wisdom, reimagine, update and put it back together - all shiny and new! … Before Medusa was monstrous, she was beautiful. And before she was beautiful, she was powerful. Everything I thought I knew was wrong. She is a riddle that defies solution, because she comes from a time before the shape of things was settled. She laughs. TW - rape, sexual assault, male violence *** SUPPORT SEASON 2 OF PODYSSEY ON ⁠⁠KO-FI.COM/PODYSSEY⁠⁠ *** Written and presented by Alex Andreou Expert contributions by Alexandra Angeletaki-Røe, Debbie Challis, Linda Marric, and Dr Ruth Smith Exec. Producers Naomi Smith & Kenny Campbell Music by Marianna Sangita Artwork by Simona Kanellou For Cooler Heads, in collaboration with Sandstone Global NOTES MUSIC Podyssey Theme: “⁠To Margoudi ki o Alexandris⁠”, Marianna Sangita, 2018 (with permission) Sergei Rachmaninov: “The Isle of The Dead, Op.29”, Dimitri Mitropoulos, 1949 Béla Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, Harold Byrns, 1949 Dinah Washington: “You go to my head”, live 1954 Betty Hutton: “Why do you wanna make those eyes at me for?”, 1945 Giacomo Puccini: Tosca, Act II Finale, Adriana Guerrini & Paolo Silveri, 1952 Frances Faye: “Dummy Song”, 1953 The Mort…

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