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May 2022
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29: She turned an ugly guy into a god an...

STEPHANIE SOO
About this episode
Greek Mythology is as messy as it gets. It all started when the Earth started sleeping with Uranus. I’m not kidding.

This kicked off a series of wars, incestuous marriages, sea monsters, and of course Circe. Circe, the daughter of the Titan of the Sun, thought she was born without any powers but then she fell in love with a mortal. A human.

She goes on a deadly journey to turn him into a Greek God. One she can marry. But how does the saying go? Give an ugly guy a chance and he thinks he rules the world. Welcome to the Greek world of betrayal, sex, and drama.

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